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European commercial enterprise in pre-colonial India

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 2.5

Author Om Prakash

Publication Date 1998

Hardback ISBN-10
0521257581

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521257589

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521257589

Overview

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.

For more details of the
print book, and how to buy it online, please see
European commercial enterprise in pre-colonial India in the Cambridge University Press online
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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction

India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500

The Portuguese in India, 1500–1640

The European trading companies: exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia

The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade

Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600–1680

The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680–1740

The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740–1800

European trade and the Indian economy

Conclusion

Bibliographic Essay

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