A Glimpse to Indian Merchant Communities in Zanzibar during 1800: the Topan Family through British Archive Sources

Beatrice Nicolini

A Glimpse to Indian Merchant Communities in Zanzibar during 1800: the Topan Family through British Archive Sources

Beatrice Nicolini

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The role of Indian merchant communities was one of the essential and deciding factors in the extraordinary development of East Africa Slave trade, mainly due to the expansion of the caravan trade with the interior of East Africa, and to the invitation by the Omani Sultans to finance, help administer the state apparatus, and collect customs dues, which occured in Sub-Saharan East Africa and also on the Island of Zanzibar during the nineteenth century, where they were extremely active.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The African Diaspora in Asia: Explorations on a Less Known Fact
Editors	Kiran Prasad, Jean-Pierre Angenot
Pages	579-592
Number of pages	14
Publication status	Published - 2008

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A Glimpse to Indian Merchant Communities in Zanzibar during 1800: the Topan Family through British Archive Sources

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