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Itinerant Belonging: Intimate Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism offers a groundbreaking examination of the personal lives and commercial activities of individuals who traversed the Indian Ocean world. Ketaki Pant moves beyond traditional economic histories to center the intimate experiences, relationships, and aspirations of merchants, traders, and entrepreneurs who built and maintained the networks that defined Indian Ocean capitalism.
Through carefully researched biographical narratives, the book reveals how questions of belonging, identity, and home were negotiated by those constantly on the move. Pant demonstrates how these itinerant actors maintained social bonds, accumulated capital, and established diasporic communities across vast distances. The work challenges conventional understandings of capitalism by highlighting the human dimensions of commercial exchange and the emotional geographies of early modern and modern trade networks.
Essential reading for historians of the Indian Ocean, capitalism, and global commerce.
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