India in the world economy : from antiquity to the present

Cover -- India in the World Economy -- New Approaches to Asian History 10 -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Preface -- 1 Introduction: India and Global History -- Envisioning contacts -- Early trade -- Indo-European trade -- Empire and beyond -- Arguments and hypotheses -- Chapter outline -- 2 Ports and Hinterlands to 1200 -- Formation of routes and ports -- Indo-Roman trade -- Western Indian Ocean in late antiquity -- Coromandel, or two deltas -- Bengal -- Conclusion -- 3 Receding Land Frontiers, 1200-1700 -- Perspectives -- Delhi sultanates -- The Deccan and the Bengal frontiers to 1500 -- Vijayanagar -- South of Vijayanagar -- North India under the Mughals -- Opening up of Bengal -- Gujarat and Konkan in transition -- Transactions in knowledge -- Conclusion -- 4 The Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800 -- The Indian Ocean world at 1500 -- The Portuguese enterprise -- East India Companies: Origins -- The company form and its problems -- Scale of trade, 1600-1800 -- Partners, employees, agents -- From merchants to landlords: The port towns -- State formation, 1707-1765 -- Transactions in knowledge -- Private trade and new enterprise, 1765-1800 -- European wars and the end of the companies -- The meaning of Indo-European trade -- Conclusion -- 5 Trade, Migration, and Investment, 1800-1850 -- Opium and China -- Indigo and Bengal -- Cotton and western India -- Global merchants -- Labor migration -- Indo-European industry -- Overland trade -- Conclusion -- 6 Trade, Migration, and Investment, 1850-1920 -- Bridging the land with the sea -- From opium to cotton -- Wheat -- Capital: Global firms -- Global banking -- Labor -- Conclusion -- 7 Colonialism and Development, 1860-1920 -- Perspectives on empire -- Empires, markets, and institutions -- Agriculture: Markets and institutions.