Author: Sinnappah Arasaratnam Publisher: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 428
Book Description
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 ISBN: 8791114888 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 418
Book Description
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: Radhika Seshan Publisher: Primus Books ISBN: 9380607253 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 149
Book Description
This work is a study of the connections between trade and politics in the Coromandel Coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, with special focus on Madras. It questions the largely uncontested view that trade and traders in pre-modern India were disconnected from the world of politics and the state, arguing instead that south Indian merchants depended on, and functioned within the structures and the stability provided by the state. Trade and Politics on the Coromandel Coast: Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries addresses the breakdown of the political structures within which the merchants operated, and the impact of the arrival of the Europeans, especially the English. In so doing, it explores the transitional nature of the seventeenth century and the ways in which the European trading companies, Indian states, and merchants interacted with each other. Situated within the larger historical context of the trading world of the Coromandel Coast, this regional history challenges accepted notions about the place of merchants and the state, and through a detailed economic history, sheds new light on the political and transitional nature of the period.
Author: Chatterjee Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004644741 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 287
Book Description
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: Om Prakash Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521257589 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 412
Book Description
European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and began exporting goods to Europe as well as to other parts of Asia. In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those of private European traders, this book considers how, over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the pre-modern world economy as a result of these interactions. The book also describes how this essentially market-determined commercial encounter changed in the latter half of the eighteenth century as the colonial relationship between Britain and the subcontinent was established. By bringing together and examining the existing literature, the author provides a fascinating overview of the impact of European trade on the pre-modern Indian economy which will be of value to students of Indian, European and colonial history.
Author: Søren Mentz Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press ISBN: 9788772899091 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 310
Book Description
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: Madeleine Zelin Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317317890 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 265
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This book is the first to use local primary sources to explore the interaction between foreign and native merchants in Asian countries. Contributors discuss the different economic, political and cultural conditions that gave rise to a variety of merchant communities in Korea, China, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines, Singapore and India.
Author: Kanakalatha Mukund Publisher: Orient Blackswan ISBN: 9788125016618 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 232
Book Description
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: Heike Liebau Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351470655 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 451
Book Description
The book is an English translation of an award winning German book. The history of social and religious encounter in 18th century South India is narrated through fascinating biographies and day to day lives of Indian workers in the Tranquebar Mission (1706-1845). The book challenges the notion that Christianity in colonial India was basically imposed from the outside. Liebau maintains that significant contributions were made by the local converts and mission co-workers who played an important role in the Tranquebar Mission.
Author: David Ringrose Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield ISBN: 1442251778 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 300
Book Description
David Ringrose looks beyond the traditional history of European expansion—which highlights European conquests, empire building, and hegemony—in order to explore the more human and genuinely cross-cultural dimensions of Europeans abroad before 1750.
Author: Sinnappah Arasaratnam
Author: Nordin Hussin
Author: Radhika Seshan
Author: Chatterjee
Author: Om Prakash
Author: Søren Mentz
Author: Madeleine Zelin
Author: Kanakalatha Mukund
Author: Heike Liebau
Author: David Ringrose