Melet Mercantile head scarves.
Kanakalatha Mukund, while describing the mercantile history of Tamilakam, points out that the heroic poetry in Sangam literature often described an ideal world rather than reality, but the basic facts are reliable and an important source of Tamil history.
Indians today might like to stereotype Gujaratis as the nation's most mercantile community, but at one point around 2,000 years ago, Tamil was the lingua franca of traders across the South East Asian seas.
The 1970s shopping centre may have been designated a Grade II listed building, but the town is eerily mercantile to visit: a sign points to a former John Lewis building as if to an ancient monument; you feel as if you are your own avatar.
"Hemp formed the basis for war, trade, and empire in that early period of mercantile capitalism.
Moreover as the site of a historic Chinatown, and as the hub of a bygone transpacific economic system borne in the late-1500s that connected Southeast Asia to the Americas, the city has long been its country's access point to regional and globalized mercantile activities.
The late scholar of South Asia Bernard Cohn did extensive work on the first Census conducted by the British in India, pointing out that their Census had a mercantile, extractive goal--after all, counting the subjects of a state is a prerequisite for taxing them.
What we know of Facebook — notably the surveillance of its users for mercantile ends and the system's intrusive power — supports this point of view.
Nihonbashi, the "Japan Bridge" that was (and still is) considered the starting point for roads to the provinces, was the unchallenged mercantile centre of Edo.
Urgent negotiations over the fate of Ms. Kochneva, 40, come at a dangerous point in the Syrian conflict, as armed groups with political and mercantile interests turn their attention to civilians.
