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Merchants of Maritime India, 1500–1800
About this book
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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Table of contents
- Cover
- Series
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- I Indian merchants and the trade in the Indian Ocean, c. 1500–1750
- II [India and Indian Ocean, 1500–1800] Introduction II: The story
- III The maritime merchant [of medieval India], c. 1500–1800
- IV The changing face of the Indian maritime merchant
- V Indian merchants and the Western Indian Ocean: The early 17th century
- VI Trade and politics in 18th-century India
- VII India and the Indian Ocean in the 18th century
- VIII Malabar in 1740
- IX The crisis at Surat, 1730–32
- X The merchants of Surat, c. 1700–50
- XI Gujarati merchants and the Red Sea trade, 1700–1725
- XII A note on the shipowning merchants of Surat, c. 1700
- XIII The broker at Mughal Surat, c. 1740
- XIV Indian merchants in the age of partnership, 1500–1800
- XV Some problems of reconstructing the history of India’s West Coast from European sources
- XVI The maritime city
- Index