Based on Dutch and English archival sources, this study analyses the political economy of Gujarat in the eighteenth … ascendancy in Gujarat -- Local hereditary chiefs -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Market Economy, Labour, and Wages -- Surat … -- Merchants and the eighteenth-century political economy -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Gujarat in Asian and Euro-Asian Trade: The …

-- The persistence of the traditional view: Britain as an emerging free-trade economy -- The persistence of the traditional …