European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India

Klappentext This book considers the impact of European trade on the pre-modern Indian economy. Zusammenfassung European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and established corporate enterprises in the region! such as the English and Dutch East India companies. This volume 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. India in the Indian Ocean trade, c.1500; 2. The Portuguese in India, 1500-1640; 3. The European trading companies, exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia; 4. The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade; 5. Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600-80; 6. The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680-1740; 7. The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740-1800; 8. European trade and the Indian economy; 9. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Omar Prakash Chouhan, Om Prakash, Om (University of Delhi) Prakash
• Assisted by: Christopher Alan Bayly (Editor), Gordon Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.1998
• EAN: 9780521257589
• ISBN: 978-0-521-25758-9
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: New Cambridge History of India
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries