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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Credo -- 2. The Integral View -- Preliminaries -- 3. Emotion -- 4. Disunity of Virtue -- 5. Character Traits -- Arguments -- 6. Adverbial Requirements -- 7. Salience without a Black Box -- 8. Moral Deference and the Proto-authority of Affect -- 9. Recap with Courage -- Consequences -- 10. Agents versus Acts -- 11. Against the Priority of Principle -- 12. Should Virtue Be Taught? -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Index

1. The Indian diaspora in West Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- 2. Competition and cooperation : Indian traders in the Yemen in the seventeenth century -- 3. Trade between India and Iran in the fifteenth century -- 4. Indian traders in Persia in the seventeenth century --- 5. Indian traders in Iran in the early eighteenth century -- 6. Indians in Iran in the later eighteenth century -- 7. Indian traders in Russia in the seventeenth century -- 8. Trading activities of Indians in Russia in the eighteenth century -- 9. A note on the business organization of Indian merchants in Russia in the seventeenth century -- 10. Marwari Barayev : a Marwari trader in Russia in the eighteenth century -- 11. The Indian diaspora in Southeast Asia in the seventeenth century -- 12. Indians around the Pamirs, c. AD 1800.

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