Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500
- 2 The Portuguese in India, 1500–1640
- 3 The European trading companies: exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia
- 4 The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade
- 5 Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600–1680
- 6 The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680–1740
- 7 The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740–1800
- 8 European trade and the Indian economy
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- Misc-endmatter
- Map 1 Important trading centres in Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
- Map 2 Portuguese seaborne empire, c. 1580"
- Map 3 The Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing the settlements of the English East India Company and of other European nations"
- Map 4 India: main textile–weaving areas, 1600–1750"
- References
1 - India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500
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- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of tables
- General editor's preface
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 India in the Indian Ocean trade, circa 1500
- 2 The Portuguese in India, 1500–1640
- 3 The European trading companies: exports from Europe and the generation of purchasing power in Asia
- 4 The companies in India: the politics and the economics of trade
- 5 Euro-Asian and intra-Asian trade: the phase of Dutch domination, 1600–1680
- 6 The VOC and the growing competition by the English and the French, 1680–1740
- 7 The supremacy of the English East India Company, 1740–1800
- 8 European trade and the Indian economy
- 9 Conclusion
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
- Misc-endmatter
- Map 1 Important trading centres in Asia in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"
- Map 2 Portuguese seaborne empire, c. 1580"
- Map 3 The Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, showing the settlements of the English East India Company and of other European nations"
- Map 4 India: main textile–weaving areas, 1600–1750"
- References
Summary
An analysis of the structure and the mechanics of the early modern Indian Ocean trade, alternatively referred to as Asian trade, ought perhaps to start with a recognition of the simple fact that this trade transgressed the boundaries of both the Indian Ocean and Asia. While in the east it intruded prominently into the South China Sea, in the west it embraced maritime trade with East Africa. Traditionally, the great arc of Asian trade included the Persian Gulf and the Red Sea in the northwest and Japan in the northeast. The principal natural divisions of this huge area were the Arabian Sea, the Bay of Bengal and the South China Sea. Within each of these zones, there were important blocks of ports across which a large amount of trade had traditionally been carried on. The western or the Arabian Sea zone included ports in the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, those on the East African coast and on the west coast of India. The Bay of Bengal network included ports in Sri Lanka, the Coromandel coast, Bengal, Burma, Thailand, Malaya and Acheh in Sumatra. Ports such as Canton and Zaiton in the South China Sea had extensive contacts both with the Indonesian ports as well as with ports in the straits of Malacca.
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- European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India , pp. 8 - 22Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998