1st Edition
Commerce, Political Economy and Ecology in Northeast India Assam, c. 1826–1905
By Nabanita Sharma
Copyright 2025
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
184 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge India
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Historically, commerce has existed in Assam in different forms. In the late medieval and early modern times, Assam had trading connections with neighbouring areas of Bhutan, Tibet, Bengal and Myanmar (Burma). This book is about the commercial activities in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in and around Assam. It looks at colonial Assam’s economy, its traders, mercantile communities,... Read more
Introduction: Conceptualising commerce, markets and merchants: The pre-colonial and the colonial
1 Capital in an age of monarchy: Trade in pre-colonial Assam
2 The political economy of early colonial Assam c. 1820–30
3 Ecology, riverine trade and transportation in the nineteenth century
4 The peripheral market: Expansion of bazaars in Assam c. 1826–1905
5 The traders of the empire: Mercantile communities in the nineteenth-century Assam
Epilogue
Biography
Nabanita Sharma has a Ph.D. in history from Delhi University, India. She taught history at Satyawati College (Evening), Delhi University, from 2019 to 2023.
