Merchants of Maritime India, 1500-1800
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Merchants of Maritime India, 1500-1800

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Merchants of Maritime India, 1500-1800

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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.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040248393
Edition
1
Topic
History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series
  3. Half Title
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Preface
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. I Indian merchants and the trade in the Indian Ocean, c. 1500–1750
  10. II [India and Indian Ocean, 1500–1800] Introduction II: The story
  11. III The maritime merchant [of medieval India], c. 1500–1800
  12. IV The changing face of the Indian maritime merchant
  13. V Indian merchants and the Western Indian Ocean: The early 17th century
  14. VI Trade and politics in 18th-century India
  15. VII India and the Indian Ocean in the 18th century
  16. VIII Malabar in 1740
  17. IX The crisis at Surat, 1730–32
  18. X The merchants of Surat, c. 1700–50
  19. XI Gujarati merchants and the Red Sea trade, 1700–1725
  20. XII A note on the shipowning merchants of Surat, c. 1700
  21. XIII The broker at Mughal Surat, c. 1740
  22. XIV Indian merchants in the age of partnership, 1500–1800
  23. XV Some problems of reconstructing the history of India’s West Coast from European sources
  24. XVI The maritime city
  25. Index