1st Edition
The Route to European Hegemony India’s Intra-Asian Trade in the Early Modern Period (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)
By Ruby Maloni
Copyright 2021
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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The advent of the Europeans was crucial in transforming the contours of Maritime Asia. The commercial situation in the Indian Ocean was impacted in many ways over the longue duree from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries. To offset the adverse balance of trade and to maximize profits, the Europeans imposed their own coercive and monopolistic systems along the existing trade routes.... Read more
1. Politico-Economic Ramifications of Europe’s Intra-Asian Trade 2. Indian Maritime Centres: Foreland and Hinterland 3. Indian Merchants and Institutional Structures: Resilience and Resistance 4. European Merchants at Indian Ports: Contest for Profit Maximization 5. The English East India Company: Commercial Power and Dominance
Biography
Ruby Maloni is former Head and Professor of the Department of History, Mumbai University. She taught Medieval Indian history at Mumbai University for more than thirty years. Her research focuses on the Indian Ocean and maritime trade, with special emphasis on the history of Gujarat.
