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INDIA xxx. INDIAN MERCHANTS IN CENTRAL ASIA AND IRAN
Scott C. Levi
The Indian merchant diaspora in Central Asia and Persia emerged in the mid-16th century and remained active for over four centuries.
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INDIA xxxi. INDIAN MERCHANTS IN 19TH-CENTURY AFGHANISTAN
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
Indian communities in Afghanistan performed an array of commercial functions in both the private and state sectors that served to integrate the Afghan economy and link it to surrounding markets in Central and South Asia.
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INDIA xxxii. PARSI COMMUNITIES
Cross-Reference
See PARSI COMMUNITIES i. and PARSI COMMUNITIES ii.
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INDIA xxxiii. INDO-MUSLIM PHYSICIANS
Fabrizio Speziale
Medicine constitutes the scientific field on which the largest corpus of works has been composed in Muslim India.
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INDIAN OCEAN
D. T. Potts
This entry will deal with the role of Indian Ocean in international trade in the following periods:
i. Pre-Islamic period. ii. Islamic Period. See Supplement.
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INDIGO
Carol Bier
(Pers. nil), the common name of a broad genus, Indigofera, with numerous species. Many tribal groups in Persia have relied on the use of indigo to achieve a stable blue color for the wool of carpets and kilims.
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INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH COMPANY
Michael Rubin
(IETC), a telegraph company that controlled telegraph wires between Tehran and the Russian border and onward through Russia and Germany to London.
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INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT
Michael Rubin
(IETD), a branch of the British Government of India, based in London, which managed a series of telegraph lines in Iran.
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INDO-GREEK DYNASTY
Osmund Bopearachchi
Greco-Bactrian kings who ruled over the region south of the Hindu Kush in the second and first century B.C.E.
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INDO-IRANIAN FRONTIER LANGUAGES
Elena Bashir
This article surveys Indo-Iranian frontier languages the territory of present-day Pakistan, which have been under the cultural and linguistic influence of successive stages of the Persian language since the time of the Achaemenid Empire.