Merchants to the Golden City
The Persian Farmān of King Chandrawizaya Rājā and the Elephant and Ivory Trade in the Indian Ocean, a View from 1728
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9979067 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Arash Khazeni (Pomona College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 933-945 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Iranian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-0862 • E-ISSN: 1475-4819 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00210862.2018.1519665 |
| OpenAlex | W2893254465 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
This paper provides a translation and analysis of Sloane Mss. 3259 in the British Library, a Persian farmān from the court of King Chandrawizaya Rājā in the Arakanese Kingdom of Mrauk U (1429−1784). Written in 1728 and addressed to the Armenian merchant Khwājeh Georgin of the port of Chennaipattana across the Bay of Bengal in India, the decree is a permit for the lucrative trade in elephants and ivory from the forests of Arakan. The royal decree reveals the presence of Persian as a mutual language of encounter, exchange, diplomacy, and correspondence in eighteenth-century Southeast Asia. Through the manuscript, a view emerges of a sovereign forest kingdom of manifold rarities at the margins of the Persianate and Mughal worlds
Ancient history · Archaeology · Armenian · Bay · BENGAL · Decree · Diplomacy · Geography · Persian · Political science · Politics · Sovereignty · Theology · Asian Studies and History · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Law · Maritime Security and History · Philosophy
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
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| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |