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 | | European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-colonial India (The New Cambridge History of India) by Om Prakash ISBN-10: 9780521257589 ISBN-10: 0-521-25758-1 ISBN-13: 9780521257589 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-25758-9 Hardcover 1998-06-28 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and established corporate enterprises in the region, such as the English and Dutch East India companies. This volume considers how, over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the premodern world economy as a result of these interactions. By documenting the existing literature, the author provides a fascinating overview of the impact of European trade on the precolonial Indian economy that will be of value to students of Indian, European and colonial history. | ||
Book Description European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and established corporate enterprises in the region, such as the English and Dutch East India companies. This volume considers how, over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the pre-modern world economy as a result of these interactions. By documenting the existing literature, the author provdes a fascinating overview of the impact of European trade on the pre-colonial Indian economy which will be of value to students of Indlian, European and colonial history. | ||
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Useful, and comparatively accessible This is an up-to-date and concise account of the commercial activities of European traders in Asia between 1500 and 1800. While the pages of tables, graphs and pie charts may make all but the real enthusiast's eyes glaze over, the figures tend to illustrate rather than dominate - unlike in some of the denser tomes in the subject area. The approach is largely comparative, and covers both private and chartered trading by all major European players in East Asia (including the Danish and Ostend Companies). There is an emphasis upon material relating to the Dutch East India Company, presumably deriving from the author's own expertise in this area; while this is undoubtedly useful and even a refreshing change from the usual weighting towards the English/British EIC, it can at times unbalance the argument and betray hints of bias. Furthermore, Prakash is given to some repetition of phrasing, which makes reading it that little bit more difficult. In all, extremely useful - but not for the casual reader of Indian history, who would be advised to start with more general histories of the period first. | ||