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Indian Traders in Xinjiang in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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  • Madhavi Thampi

    (East Asian Studies, Delhi University, Delhi 110007. E-mail: madhavi_thampi@yahoo.com)

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The presence of Indian traders in Xinjiang is largely discounted as a factor of significance when analyzing the relations between India and China in the modern era. However, hundreds of Indian sojourners and settlers were present in the main towns and surrounding areas of southern Xinjiang over a period of several centuries until the middle of the twentieth century. This article explores how the rivalry between the expanding British Indian and Russian empires, as well as the turbulent politics of the Republican era in China, placed insurmountable difficulties in the way of this once-resilient group of Indian merchants, eventually leading to their complete exodus from this region of China by the late 1940s.

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  • Madhavi Thampi, 2010. "Indian Traders in Xinjiang in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries," China Report, , vol. 46(4), pages 371-385, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:chnrpt:v:46:y:2010:i:4:p:371-385
    DOI: 10.1177/000944551104600404
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