Business History of India [Hardcover]

The collective work critically examines the trends and patterns of Indian business through the ages bringing the story down to modern times when it fuses with nationalism. A book of immense help to the engaged in History and economics discipline,and revivalists. About The Author:- Dr. Chittabrata Palit, Prof. of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a renowned Economic Historian. Dr. Pranjal kumar Bhattocharya, is a retired Professor of History at Jadavpur University, Calutta. Contents:- CONTENTS:- # Preface Introduction List of Contributors 1. Business in the Ancient Period : Some Methodological Issues 2. A Leaf from the Smritis : In Memory of the First Tentative Ventures into Legal and Commercial Enterprises 3. Business in Early Bengal (Pre-Gupta Phase) : A Numismatic Approach 4. Seventeenth Century Merchant Capital : The Case Study of Surat 5. Revealing and Concealing : The Business World of Middlemen and Merchants in the French Commercial Enterprise in Pondicherry (1674-1741) 6. Two Indian Brokers of the French East India Company in Eastern India During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 7. The Nawab?s Business : Agricultural and Commercial Practices in Eighteenth Century Bengal 8. The Salt Merchants of Bengal (1757-1800) 9. From Artisan to Merchant : Looking from Below Smriti 10.The Brown Ships in the Indian Ocean : The American Merchants and the Bengali Banians 1790-1880. 11.More about Swadeshi Economic Thinking : Bengal in the Late 19th and Early 20 centuries 12.Bengali Business Enterprise and the BNCCI 13.The Marwaris : Transition from Trader to Industrialist 14.Caste, Religious Traditions, Society and Business Network : A Case Study of the Marwari Community in North Bengal. The Title 'Business History of India written/authored/edited by Chittabrata Palit', published in the year 2006. The ISBN 9788178354972 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 250 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Kalpaz Publications. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Economic / Finance / Agriculture / History / Archaeology / Management. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-