1st Edition
Precious Metals and Commerce The Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade
By Om Prakash
Copyright 1994
304 Pages
by
Routledge
304 Pages
by
Routledge
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Precious metals played a key role in inter-continental trade between Europe and Asia in the early modern period. An assured supply of these metal was indeed a pre-requisite to the procurement of Asian goods such as spices, textiles and raw silk. Once these metals had been imported into Asia, they were converted into the coinage of the country concerned. The 'bullion for goods' pattern of trade... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Dutch East India Company in the trade of the Indian Ocean; Restrictive trading regimes: VOC and the Asian spice trade in the 17th century; The Dutch East India Company in Bengal: trade privileges and problems, 1633-1712; Asian trade and European impact: a study of the trade from Bengal, 1630-1720; Bullion for goods: international trade and the economy of early 18th-century Bengal; European trade and the economy of Bengal in the 17th century and the early 18th century; European trade and South Asian economies: some regional contrasts, 1600-1800; Opium monopoly in India and Indonesia in the 18th century; Precious metal flows in Asia and world economic integration in the 17th century; Precious metal flows, coinage and prices in India in the 17th and the early 18th century; Foreign merchants and Indian mints in the 17th and the early 18th century; On coinage in Mughal India; European and Asian merchants in Asian maritime trade, 1500-1800: some issues of methodology and evidence; Dutch source material on Indian maritime history in the early modern period: an evaluation; Dutch source material on the history of Surat in the 17th century; Trade and urbanization in Gujarat in the early 17th century: a Dutch account; Index.
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Om Prakash
