books.google.co.in - Claude Markovits' book charts the development of two merchant communities in the province of Sind from the precolonial period, through colonial conquest and up to indepedence. Based on previously neglected archival sources, it describes how the communities came to control trading networks throughout...http://books.google.co.in/books/about/The_Global_World_of_Indian_Merchants_175.html?id=M2vu7Odjz6kC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947
