Indigenous capital and imperial expansion : Bombay, Surat, and the West Coast /
This work sets out to study the dynamics of English imperial expansion on the west coast of India. The investigation leads the author to examine the role of Bania credit institutions and pan-Indian hundi transfers in facilitating the military triumph of the English East India Company over the Marath...
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Delhi :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Trade in the west coast in the first half of the eighteenth-century
- 2. Mid-century English victories: The Konkan coast and the Surat Castle
- 3. The emergence of the Anglo-Bania order 1750-1780
- 4. Consolidation and challenge: The Anglo-Bania order and the Surat riots of 1795
- 5. The years of triumph: Bombay and the new order on the west coast 1795-1810.