The world of the Indian Ocean merchant, 1500-1800
Subtitle: collected essays of Ashin Das Gupta
By: compiled by Uma Das Gupta.
Contributors: Dasgupta, Uma.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 511
Subjects: Merchants -- Indian Ocean -- History.; Merchant ships -- Indian Ocean -- History.; Merchant marine -- Indian Ocean -- History.; Trade routes -- Indian Ocean -- History.; Indian Ocean -- Commerce -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I; title: 1. The Maritime Merchant and Indian History; title: 2. India and the Indian Ocean, c. 1500-1800: The Story; title: 3 Indian Merchants and Trade in the Indian Ocean, c.; title: 1500-1750; title: 4. The Maritime Merchant of India, c. 1500-1800; title: 5. Some Attitudes Among Eighteenth-century; title: Merchants; title: 6. The Changing Face of the Indian Maritime Merchant; title: 7. Indian Merchants in the Age of Partnership, c.; title: 1500-1800; title: 8. The Maritime City; title: 9. Trade and Politics in Eighteenth-century India; title: 10. The Indian Merchant and the Indian Ocean:; title: 1500-1800; title: 11. India and the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth; title: Century; title: 12. Europeans in India Before the Empire; title: 13. The Moreland Hypothesis; title: 14. The Vasco da Gama Epoch; title: PART II; title: 15. Some Problems of Reconstructing the History of; title: India's West Coast from European Sources; title: 16. India and the Western Indian Ocean at the Death of; title: Akbar; title: 17. Indian Merchants and the Western Indian Ocean:; title: The Early Seventeenth Century; title: 18. The Early Seventeenth-century Crisis in the Western; title: Indian Ocean and the Rise of Gujarati Shipping in; title: Early Eighteenth Century; title: 19. The Merchants of Surat, c. 1700-1750; title: 20. A Note on the Ship-owning Merchants of Surat, c.; title: 1700; title: 21. The Crisis in Surat, c. 1730-32; title: 22. Gujarati Merchants and the Red Sea Trade,; title: 1700-1725; title: 23. The Broker in Mughal Surat, c. 1740; title: 24. Pieter Phoonsen of Surat, c. 1730-1740; title: 25. Malabar in c. 1740; title: 26. A Note on Out-Station Factories: Mocha Factory; title: 27. Madras Commercial Records: An Experiment In; title: Cuddalore; title: 28. Studies in Madras Records: Trade in the Straits; title: 29. Calcutta and the Indian Ocean in the Days of; title: Rammohun Roy; title: Bibliography; title: Index.