Trade And Empire In Western India

Author : Pamela Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1970-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 052107651X

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This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions which have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism in that part of India. The chief of these is that the reform of the East India Company's administration in the 1780s brought the policy of the Bombay presidency under the firm control of the governor-general in Bengal and of the Court of Directors and the Board of Control in London.

Author : Edward A. Alpers,Chhaya Goswami
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199096138

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Transregional Trade and Traders by Edward A. Alpers,Chhaya Goswami Pdf

Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also people and ideas. This volume maps the trajectory of the extra-continental interactions of Gujarat and how it shaped the history of the Indian Ocean. Chronologically, the volume spans two millennia, and geographically, it ranges from the Red Sea to Southeast Asia The book focuses on specific groups of Gujarati traders, and their accessibility and trading activities with maritime merchants from Africa, Arabia, Southeast Asia, China, and Europe. It not only analyses the complex process of commodity circulation, involving a host of players, huge investments, and numerous commercial operations, but also engages with questions of migration and diaspora. Paying close attention to current historiographical debates, the contributors make serious efforts to challenge the neat regional boundaries that are often drawn around the trading history of Gujarat.

Author : V. K. Jain
Publisher : South Asia Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 8121504708

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Trade and Traders in Western India by V. K. Jain Pdf

Description: Production and consumption are the two main activities of man. But between these two lies the sphere of circulation . The present work deals with the forms, functions and dynamics of this circulation against the backdrop of social surplus and demographic changes over a period of three hundred years (AD 1000-1300) in western India. The interplay of trade routes and towns, conveyance and commodities, market system and money economy and other factors through which commercial forces operate has also been highlighted. In the sphere of foreign trade, the role of Arab traders and their relations with local kings and merchants have been discussed in the context of changing economic scenario of the time. The growth of commercial activity led to the emergence of a hierarchy of traders, big and small. While petty trader was an object of social disdain, a big merchant with his accumulated wealth enjoyed great power and prestige in society and even the ruling elite reacted favourably to his influence and demands. An attempt has been made here to study the character, composition and role of mercantile community within the framework of conflict, adjustment and reconciliation among different socio-economic groups.

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107186927

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A Business History of India by Tirthankar Roy Pdf

Studying firms and entrepreneurs over three centuries, this book unravels the historical roots of the impressive business growth witnessed in contemporary India.

Author : Douglas E. Haynes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521193337

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Small Town Capitalism in Western India by Douglas E. Haynes Pdf

A history of artisan production in colonial and post-independence India, and its role in the country's society and economics.

Author : Patrick Truck
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000560138

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East India Company V4 by Patrick Truck Pdf

First published in 2004. The purpose of this reference work is to offer a range of materials covering the history of the East India Company during the two and a half centuries of its existence. Volume IV, entitled Trade, Finance and Power, considers the Company's exercise of power in relation to a number of economic issues, and covers not only its official trade, but the entrepreneurial activities of private individuals operating under Company licence.

Author : Jessica Hanser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : China
ISBN : 9780300236088

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Mr. Smith Goes to China by Jessica Hanser Pdf

An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders--George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras--and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China.

Author : Lakshmi Subramanian
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9788184757217

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Three Merchants of Bombay by Lakshmi Subramanian Pdf

Three Merchants of Bombay is the story of three intrepid merchants who traded out of Bombay in the nineteenth century—Tarwady Arjunjee, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand—founding pioneering business empires based on trade in cotton and opium. Set against the backdrop of global and local economies undergoing rapid and unforeseen change, these stories stand as a microcosm for the history of indigenous capitalism in western India. In this succinct and lucid account, Lakshmi Subramanian traces that history and locates it in the greater narrative of the economic development of India, South Asia and the world.

Author : Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107009103

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India in the World Economy by Tirthankar Roy Pdf

This enthralling book offers a new approach to Indian economic history, placing trade and mercantile activity in the region within a global framework.

Author : Giorgio Riello,Tirthankar Roy
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004176539

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How India Clothed the World by Giorgio Riello,Tirthankar Roy Pdf

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 : Geoffrey Jones,Mary Rose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781135237868

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Family Capitalism by Geoffrey Jones,Mary Rose Pdf

First published in 1994. The articles in this collection are concerned with family-owned business enterprises and span three centuries and three continents. Family firms account for between 75 per cent and 99 per cent of all companies in the EC, and 65 per cent of GDP and employment in Europe. While the huge majority of family businesses are very small-scale, many are not. In the United States one-third of Fortune 500 companies are currentlyfamily-controlled.

Author : Michael Naylor Pearson
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Goa, Daman and Diu (India)
ISBN : UOM:39015014731247

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Coastal Western India by Michael Naylor Pearson Pdf

Author : Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 685 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136138201

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International Bibliography of Business History by Francis Goodall,Terry Gourvish,Steven Tolliday Pdf

The field of business history has changed and grown dramatically over the last few years. There is less interest in the traditional `company-centred' approach and more concern about the wider business context. With the growth of multi-national corporations in the 1980s, international and inter-firm comparisons have gained in importance. In addition, there has been a move towards improving links with mainstream economic, financial and social history through techniques and outlook. The International Bibliography of Business History brings all of the strands together and provides the user with a comprehensive guide to the literature in the field. The Bibliography is a unique volume which covers the depth and breadth of research in business history. This exhaustive volume has been compiled by a team of subject specialists from around the world under the editorship of three prestigious business historians.

Author : Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000713701

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Modern South Asia by Sugata Bose,Ayesha Jalal Pdf

The fifth edition of Modern South Asia draws on the newest historical research and scholarship in the field to interpret and debate key developments in modern South Asian history and historical writing, covering the diverse spectrum of the subcontinent’s social, economic and political past. Jointly authored by two leading Indian and Pakistani historians, this definitive study offers a rare depth of historical understanding of the politics, cultures and economies that have shaped the lives of more than a fifth of humanity. This new edition on the 75th anniversary of independence and partition brings the narrative up to the present day, discussing recent events and addressing new themes such as the capture of state power in India by the forces of religious majoritarianism, economic development in the context of the ‘rise’ of Asia and strategic shifts occasioned by the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and China’s increasing role in the region. Providing fresh insights into the structure and ideology of the British raj, the meaning of subaltern resistance, the refashioning of social relations along lines of caste, class, religion and gender, the different strands of anti-colonial nationalism and the dynamics of decolonization, this is an essential resource for all students of the modern history of South Asia in an Indian Ocean and global context.

Author : Pamela Nightingale
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521053242

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Trade and Empire in Western India by Pamela Nightingale Pdf

This study examines the influence of commercial interests on the expansion of the British Empire in Western India in the age of Cornwallis and Wellesley. It questions some of the assumptions which have been accepted as explanations of British imperialism in that part of India. The chief of these is that the reform of the East India Company's administration in the 1780s brought the policy of the Bombay presidency under the firm control of the governor-general in Bengal and of the Court of Directors and the Board of Control in London.