Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: PART I -- 1. The Maritime Merchant and Indian History -- 2. India and the Indian Ocean, c. 1500-1800: The Story -- 3 Indian Merchants and Trade in the Indian Ocean, c. -- 1500-1750 -- 4. The Maritime Merchant of India, c. 1500-1800 -- 5. Some Attitudes Among Eighteenth-century -- Merchants -- 6. The Changing Face of the Indian Maritime Merchant -- 7. Indian Merchants in the Age of Partnership, c. -- 1500-1800 -- 8. The Maritime City -- 9. Trade and Politics in Eighteenth-century India -- 10. The Indian Merchant and the Indian Ocean: -- 1500-1800 -- 11. India and the Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth -- Century -- 12. Europeans in India Before the Empire -- 13. The Moreland Hypothesis -- 14. The Vasco da Gama Epoch -- PART II -- 15. Some Problems of Reconstructing the History of -- India's West Coast from European Sources -- 16. India and the Western Indian Ocean at the Death of -- Akbar -- 17. Indian Merchants and the Western Indian Ocean: -- The Early Seventeenth Century -- 18. The Early Seventeenth-century Crisis in the Western -- Indian Ocean and the Rise of Gujarati Shipping in -- Early Eighteenth Century -- 19. The Merchants of Surat, c. 1700-1750 -- 20. A Note on the Ship-owning Merchants of Surat, c. -- 1700 -- 21. The Crisis in Surat, c. 1730-32 -- 22. Gujarati Merchants and the Red Sea Trade, -- 1700-1725 -- 23. The Broker in Mughal Surat, c. 1740 -- 24. Pieter Phoonsen of Surat, c. 1730-1740 -- 25. Malabar in c. 1740 -- 26. A Note on Out-Station Factories: Mocha Factory -- 27. Madras Commercial Records: An Experiment In -- Cuddalore -- 28. Studies in Madras Records: Trade in the Straits -- 29. Calcutta and the Indian Ocean in the Days of -- Rammohun Roy -- Bibliography -- Index.

History & Philosophy

Economics

Sumaiya Kainat Bintey Kohinoor