Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World - Across Sea and Land

The Asian trading world, encompassing some of the most populated and most productive regions in the world, has a long and fascinating commercial history.

List of contents

List of Maps
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada
Part 1: India and Japan

1. Trade and Culture in the 17th Century: The Japanese traveller Tenjiku Tokubei’s Idea of India
Ruby Maloni


2. Textiles in the Pre-modern Economies of India and Japan-a comparative study
Ishrat Alam


3. Gold Trade between Japan and India by the Dutch East India Company
Ryuto Shimada


4. Surat and Nagasaki: A comparison of two international port cities in the 17th century Hiromu Nagashima
Part 2: Merchants and Trading Networks


5. Road and Security between Agra and Surat during the 17th and Early 18th Centuries Shinsaku Kato


6. Merchants of the Coromandel Coast in the 17th Century: From Masulipatnam to Fort St. David
Radhika Seshan


7. Trade of Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur in the Indian Ocean (1489-1686)

Kiran Jadhav
Index

About the author

Radhika Seshan is former Head and retired Professor in the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India and is now Visiting Faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, India. Her work has been primarily in the areas of economic history, particularly maritime and urban history of early modern India. Author of three books, she has edited or co-edited many others, and her most recent publication is Wage Earners in India 1500–1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context, co-edited with Jan Lucassen (2022).
Ryuto Shimada is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian History, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. The author of The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company During the Eighteenth Century (2006), he has published extensively in Japanese and English on aspects of the networks of the Indian Ocean world in the early modern age.

Summary

The Asian trading world, encompassing some of the most populated and most productive regions in the world, has a long and fascinating commercial history.

Product details

• Authors: Radhika (Retired Professor of History Seshan
• Assisted by: Radhika Seshan (Editor), Seshan Radhika (Editor), Ryuto Shimada (Editor), Shimada Ryuto (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.06.2023
• EAN: 9781032248271
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224827-1
• No. of pages: 134
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; Japan, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, HISTORY / Asia / Japan, India, maritime history, Economic history, Social and cultural history, Asian History, Indian Ocean, Regional Geography, HISTORY / Asia / South / India, indian ocean history;Asian history