of the French East India Company, interweaving national and imperial scales through the frame of the transnational … France faced in India as a weakened imperial power, in the face of the rise of the sovereign British East India Company (EIC …). As India remained integral to the broader French imperial economy, officials and intellectuals accordingly reimagined …

politics, the position of merchants and businessmen in the economy and society of late colonial India, and how particular …

intensive cultivation of cotton -- APPENDIX 2.2 -- THE COTTON TRADE IN SOUTH INDIA -- APPENDIX 2.3 -- ON THE SOURCES FOR TABLE 2 … discontent -- Solidarity -- Weavers and writing -- Conclusion -- 5 Laborers, kings and colonialism -- The state and labor in … England -- Kings and laborers in South India -- Merchants and kings in South India -- Merchants and the Company state -- The …

from their main base (in the best conditions). During the three centuries after Vasco de Gama had reached India, European … trading areas dramatically expanded to the shores of Asia, and a long period of harsh competition set the East India Companies …