The Indian Trade At the Asian Frontier [Hardcover]

This volume provides rich insights into workings of the Indian mind arguing that Indian merchants in the medieval and the early modern period were in no way inferior to other traders and Europeans in terms of their commercial operations and business acumen drawing on a wide range of sources. This book throws a new light on growth and development of Asian Trade on Sea and Land unearthing new evidence from Danish and Russian sources. About The Author:- S. Jeyaseela Stephen, is Professor of History and Coordinator of the UGC - Special Assistance Programme at Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan. Contents:- Ports, Maritime Trade and Shipping: An Elusive Port in Early Medieval Bengal: Rila Mukherjee • The Rise and Fall of Satgaon; Anirudha Ray • The Rise and Fall of the Port of Cannanore: J.B.P. More & Leena More • Danish Shipping and Trade between Tranquebar on the Coromandel Coast of India and South East Asia during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Martin Krieger • Private and Official Trade with Asia Europe: Laxmi Narayan Raut • Indian Commercial Intermediaries and the French East India Company in Coromandel during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: B. Krisnamurthy • Straddling the Arabian Sea: Ruby Maloni • Hindu Dominance in the Goa-Based Long-Distance Trade during the Eighteenth Century: Philomena Sewueira Antony • Marwari Barayev: Surendra Gopal • Mints, Monetary Pattern, Money Supply and Trade: Ayed Ejaz Hussain • Trade Across the Himalayas: Nicholas Rhodes • Portuguese Trade in Indian Cotton Textiles during the Late Eighteenth Century: Karubaki Datta • Commodities, Trade and the Economy of Bengal: Tilottama Mukherjee . The Title 'The Indian Trade At the Asian Frontier written/authored/edited by Jeyaseela Stephen', published in the year 2008. The ISBN 9788121209465 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 358 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is History / Archaeology. Size of the book is 14.34 x 22.59 cms Vol:-