Power, Profit and Poetry: Traditional Society in Kathiawar, Western India

Kathiawar is a peninsula surrounded by the old trade routes from India to the Middle East and is the home of valiant Rajputs and a large community of non-violent merchants. Opposition between violent and non-violent, between the warrior and the merchant traditions is the main theme. Story traces the gradual growth of what by the 16th century became a traditional Rajput polity.