| Description |
1 online resource (143 p.) |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Maps -- Figures -- Tables -- Acknowledgements -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Connections in the Indian Ocean World -- Notes -- Part I: Connections by Sea -- Chapter 1: Markets and Competition: Opium Trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century -- Introduction -- The Creation of the Batavia-Centred Opium Monopoly -- Opium Sales at Batavia and its Distribution in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago |
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Monopoly and "Smuggling" -- Opium Trafficking around the Malacca Strait -- Cat and Mouse Games over the VOC's Opium Monopoly -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Unpublished Sources -- Published Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Chapter 2: The Safavid Mission to Siam and the Indian Ocean World in the Late Seventeenth Century -- A Persian Mission to Siam in the 1680s -- Across the Indian Ocean: Routes of the Persian Mission -- Embassy's Outward Route -- Return Journey -- Port Cities through the Eyes of the Persian Mission -- Muscat (Masqat) -- Madras (Chinapatan) -- Mergui (Margi) |
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Tenasserim (Tanasuri) -- Pattani (Patani) -- Malacca (Malaqa) -- Kochi (Kuchi) -- Surat (Surat) -- Bombay (Mumba'i) -- At the Ayutthaya Court: Persians in Siam -- Safavid Persia and the Indian Ocean in the Late Seventeenth Century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: West Africa and France in the Rebuilding of Pondicherry after 1816: The Case of Textile Industry -- Introduction -- The Early Stage of the Rebuilding of Pondicherry Until the Late 1820s -- The Modernisation of Textile Industry in Pondicherry after 1830 -- Guinées in the Senegal River Valley -- Conclusion -- Notes |
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Port Hinterland Dynamics: Case Study of Rajapur -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 6: Hinterland Connections in 18th-Century North Konkan: Secondary Ports, Coastal Connections, and Internal Markets -- Political Landscape -- Port Connections: Local Coastal Trade -- Port Connections: Coastal Trade -- Hinterland Connections -- Regional and Local Markets -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Chapter 7: Inland Trade Networks under the Marathas in the 18th-19th Century: With Special Reference to Indāpūr Pargaṇā in Puṇe Subhā 1 -- The Collection of Zakāt (a Transit Duty) under the Marathas -- Revenue |
| Summary |
The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Bibliography |
References -- Chapter 4: Circulation of the Kachchhi Bhatiya in the 19th Century: Towards the Indian Ocean World History -- Introduction -- Circulation, in Order to Activate Network -- The Kachchhi Bhatiya and their Expansion towards the Western Indian Ocean -- Business and Organisation among the Kachchhi Bhatiya along the East Coast of Africa -- Circulation in the 19th Century -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Archival Sources -- References -- Part II: Hinterland Connections -- Chapter 5: Ports, Markets, Commercial Networks, and Politics: Case of Tal (South) Konkan in the 17th Century |
| Notes |
Expenditure |
| Subject |
Economic history
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Asian history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Shimada, Ryuto
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| ISBN |
9781000841541 |
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1000841545 |
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