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The Trade Relations Between England and India (1600-1896)

1919

WHEN the history of dirett trading intercourse by sea between 1:urope and the East began with the Portuguese conquests at the end of the 15th century the foreign trade of India was chiefly in the harts of the Moors. [...] And yet the contemporary writers of the time speak of the marvellous riches of the East of the extent to which Europe was enriched by the importation of Indian products and of the dissemination throughout India of manufactures revealing the industry and skill of the people. [...] By the victory at Talikot in 1565 the Muslim kings of Golconda had supplanted the earlier Hindu rulers ; but the kings of Golconda had never succeeded in thoroughly reducing the country and the descendants of the Hindu mhiarchs supported by the coast Rajahs continued to dispute for he power over the districts of the seaboard. [...] In 1632 the position of the factory at Masulipatam was much improved by the grant of the "Golden Firman by the King of Golconda which gave the English liberty of trade in the ports of the King's dominions and fixed a limit of 500 pagodas per annum upon the amount of duties to be demanded of them. [...] The English goods proved unsaleable and the foundtrs of the new settlement mostly perished of fever while the Portuguese from the Chittagong Coast and the Dutch from the Coromandel Coast attempted to crush at the outset any efforts on the part of the English to develop a trade in Orissa.
commerce industry
Pages
270
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142258
Segment Pages Author Actions
Preface
i-vii C.J. Hamilton view
Chapter I. Introduction
1-4 unknown view
Chapter II. The Foundation of English Trade in India—1600 to 1661
5-34 unknown view
Chapter III. 'The Beginning of the Company’s Territorial Power. 1661-1708
35-59 unknown view
Chapter IV. The Break-Up of the Mughal Empire: 1708-1765
60-85 unknown view
Chapter V. English Commercial Policy and Indian Trade. 1600-1765
86-111 unknown view
Chapter VI. Economic Disorders in India. 1765-1793
112-158 unknown view
Chapter VII. English Commercial Policy and Indian Manufactures. 1765-1858
159-184 unknown view
Chapter VIII. The Growth of Economic Freedom in India 1793-1858
185-230 unknown view
Chapter IX. The Establishment of Free Trade
231-254 unknown view
Appendix
255-260 unknown view
Index
261-263 unknown view

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