Table of Contents

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.

About the Author

Om Prakash, University of Delhi, India