European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India

by Om Prakash

European traders first appeared in India at the end of the fifteenth century and began exporting goods to Europe as well as to other parts of Asia. In a detailed analysis of the trading operations of European corporate enterprises such as the English and Dutch East India Companies, as well as those of private European traders, this book considers how, over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy expanded and was integrated into the pre-modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521257581
• ISBN13: 9780521257589
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.9" x 9.1"