Author : Sinnappah Arasaratnam
Publisher : Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 29,38 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
In this in-depth history of India's eastern coastline during the late-medieval and early-modern periods, the author unearths fresh empirical data from the records of the Dutch and English East India Companies to reconstruct the life and livelihood of the region. He discusses its geographical and economic boundaries, its topography and climate, its ports and trading outlets, and examining the unity of the area from a variety of perspectives.
Author : Nordin Hussin
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 31,38 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8791114888
This study compares Melaka and Penang in the context of overall trends - policy, geographical position, nature and direction of trade, and morphology and sociology - and how these factors were influenced by trade and policies. Conclusions are drawn concerning where and how Melaka and Penang fit in the urban traditions of Southeast Asia and the significance of the fact that the period under study coincided with the shift from the height of the "Age of Commerce" towards a period of heightened imperialist activities.
Author : Chatterjee
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2023-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9004644741
This monograph deals with the social and political context of commercial activity in early modern India - a period during which Eastern India (and Bihar) experienced the transition to British colonial rule. As a point of departure from existing scholarly literature that usually studies this transition in material terms, this volume uses an approach that takes into account the configuration of social relations and political connections within which, it argues, commercial activity was embedded. Using merchants and bankers as its subjects, this book deals with the structure of trade and banking, the position of merchants in the cultural order and the role of the state in perpetuating this order.
Author : James D. Tracy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 32,41 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521457354
This volume examines the rise of the many different trading empires from the end of the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century.
Author : Ashin Das Gupta
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 104024839X
The focus of this volume is the rise and fall of the Indian maritime merchant in the early modern period: the heyday of Moghul Surat, the appearance of a group of independent merchant shipowners, and their eclipse at the end of the period in the face of European competition and monopolies. Much of the evidence for the activity of these Indian merchants comes from the records of the Dutch and English East India Companies, as well as the papers of English private merchants, and this is carefully assessed by Professor Das Gupta in these articles. He is also concerned to set the picture thus gained in the context of the trade of the Indian Ocean region as a whole, and to relate it to the questions of continuity and change raised by Van Leur.
Author : Kanakalatha Mukund
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788125016618
The book focuses on the changes in the trading world of the Tamil merchants in the southern Coromandel region, with the arrival of European trading companies and the concomitant creation of European port enclaves and the rapid expansion of demand for Coromandel cotton textiles. The author uses impressive range of original sources literary, inscriptional and archival to cover a long period of history (beginning with the maritime trade in the Sangam period) to argue that the merchants evolved over the centuries into a distinct class of merchant capitalists with a conscious perception of their identity as an economic and social class.
Author : Chris Nierstrasz
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9004234292
Chris Nierstrasz’ In the Shadow of the Company, offers us an insight into the relation between the Dutch East India Company and its servants as it slipped into decline. This relationship altered dramatically in the eighteenth century under internal and external pressures.
Author : Søren Mentz
Publisher : Museum Tusculanum Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 35,46 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788772899091
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, servants in the East India Company established a private English trading network that was successful and highly competitive. How was this development maintained seeing that the group of private merchants was constantly changing? The answer must be found in the close ties connecting Madras with the City of London. London was the financial centre of the British Empire as well as the generator of overseas expansion. Colonial societies in the West Indies and North America were economically and socially dependent upon the metropolis and so was Madras. This book places the activities of the private merchants in Madras within the framework of the first British Empire. It focuses on a hitherto neglected field of study, uncovering a private trading network, a diaspora, built on gentlemanly capitalism, trust and ethnicity.
Author : Giorgio Riello
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9004176535
Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the making of these global exchanges over time. This volume presents innovative research that explores the dynamic ways in which diverse textile production and trade regions generated the first globalization . A series of experts connect this global commodity with the dramatic political and economic transformations that characterised the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Collectively, the essays transform our understanding of the contribution of South Asian cloth to the making of the modern world economy.
Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 34,2 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135047863
The death of the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb in 1707 until the annexation of Maratha territories by the British East India Company in 1818 was a period of transition for the economy of India. This book focuses on these transitions, and shows how a study of this period of Indian history contributes to a deeper understanding of the long-run patterns of economic change in India. Momentous changes occurred in business and politics in India during the eighteenth century - the expansion of trade with Europe and the collapse of the Mughal Empire, resulting in the formation of a number of independent states. This book analyses how these two forces were interrelated, and how they went on to change livelihoods and material wellbeing in the region. Using detailed studies of markets, institutions, rural and urban livelihoods, and the standard of living, it develops a new perspective on the history of eighteenth century India, one that places business at the centre, rather than the transition to colonial rule. This book is the first systematic account of the economic history of early modern India, and an essential reference for students and scholars of Economics and South Asian History.
