The anarchy: the East India Company, corporate violence, and the pillage of an empire

Dalrymple, William

ISBN: 9781526618504, 1526618508

This book tells the remarkable story of how one of the world's most magnificent empires disintegrated and came to be replaced by a dangerously unregulated private company, based thousands of miles overseas and answerable only to its shareholders. In his most ambitious and riveting book to date, William Dalrymple tells the story of the East India Company as it has never been told before, unfoldi...

Looking back to change track: a TERI publication

Datt, Divya et al

ISBN: 9788179932841, 8179932842

The present study picks up the thread from 1997, examining environmental trends in the last decade, isolating underlying priority issues, and identifying strategies that are needed to prevent or ameliorate environmental damage.

Lost worlds: Indian labour and its forgotten histories

Joshi, Chitra

ISBN: 9788178241692, 8178241692

Using a wide range of oral and archival sources as well as popular literature, the author reconstructs working class lives, exploring their everyday worlds at the workplace and within community life outside, as well as their moments of conflict and struggle.

Making of a nation Bangladesh: an economist's tale

Islam, Nurul

ISBN: 9789840516667, 9840516663

The author analysis the struggle of the Bengalis' with Pakistan government's policies on economic issues that led to the birth of Bangladesh.

Maritime cooperation between India and Sri Lanka

Subramanyam Raju, Adluri et al.

ISBN: 9788173046902, 8173046905

Maritime trade of the Malabar Coast and the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, rev. ed.

Mathew, K.S.

ISBN: 9789350980118, 9350980118

This volume provides a thorough investigation into the dynamics of the maritime trade conducted on the Malabar Coast and the role of the Portuguese in it. It brings out several hitherto lesser known details about the part played by the Indian as well as foreign merchants.

Merchants, traders, entrepreneurs: Indian business in the colonial era

Markovits, Claude

ISBN: 9788178241883, 8178241889

Money and credit in Indian history: from early medieval times

Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (ed.)

ISBN: 9788185229645, 8185229643

The papers presented in this volume arise out of the session on money, banking and finance, organized under the auspices of the Indian History Congress, Kolkata, 2000.

Money and markets from pre-colonial to colonial India

Biswas, Anirban (b.1952)

ISBN: 9788189833206, 8189833200

This book is a study of the pre-colonial and transitional phase of India's monetary and commercial history, with special reference to Bengal, and brings into focus the change that were brought about by the colonial rule.;

Networks in the first global age 1400-1800, ed. by Rila Mukherjee

ISBN: 9789380607092, 9380607091

Viewing the waterscapes as conduits of much economic and cultural sharing between people and lands, the focus of this book is on the oceans and seas the Indian, the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans and the Mediterranean Sea and economic, military and cultural transmissions within and across them.

Old routes: north Indian nomads and bankers in Afghan, Uzbekand Russian lands

Banerji, Arup

ISBN: 9788188789726, 8188789720

This book is a study of commercial relations between north India, the Uzbek Khanate of Bukhara and Russia between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

On the turnpike: Indian economy since 1947 and Indian economic serive at 50

Srinivasa-Raghavan, TCA

ISBN: 9788171889303, 8171889301

The book describes the circumstances under which the Cadre that advises and shapes economic policy under the Ministry of Finance was born, the conrtibutions it has made, the challenges it has faced and the path ahead.

One hundred years of servitude: political economy of tea plantations in colonial Assam

Behal, Rana P

ISBN: 9789382381433, 9382381430

This book presents a hundred-year history of tea plantations in the Assam (Brahmaputra) Valley during British colonial rule in India. It explores a world where more than two million migrant labourers worked under conditions of indentured servitude in these tea plantations, producing tea for an increasingly profitable global market.

Peasant history of late pre-colonial and colonial India, by Binay Bhushan Chaudhuri

ISBN: 9788131716885, 8131716880

...Civilization, Vol.VIII Part 2 / Gen. Ed.: D.P. Chattopadhyaya.

Pelagic passageways: the Northern Bay of Bangal before colonialism

Mukherjee, Rila (ed.)

ISBN: 9789380607207, 9380607202

Concentrating on commodity and currency flows, travel, trade, routes and interactive networks, this book visualizes the cultural space of the northern Bay of Bangal as embracing upland landlocked areas- Ava, Yunnan, the Tripuri, Dimasa and Ahom states- not usually seen as part of maritime history. This book suggests that they too were a part of the social and commercial networks of the Indian O...

Pilgrim tax in India, facts and observations relative to the practice of taxing pilgrims in various parts of India, and of paying a premium to those who collect them for the ......

Peggs, J

....worship of Juggernaut at the great temple in Orissa.

The politics of trade: Anglo-French commerce on the Coromandel coast 1763-1793

Sinha, Arvind

ISBN: 9788173044199, 8173044198

The book deals with the period of transition in the Indian economy from pre-colonial to colonial times.;;

Portuguesee Cochin and the maritime trade of India 1500-1663

Malekandathil, Pius

ISBN: 9788173044069, 8173044066

Property, land, revenue, and policy: the East India Company, c. 1757-1825

Rorabacher, J. Albert

ISBN: 9789350980743, 9350980746

Rethinking classical Indo-Roman trade: political economy of Eastern Mediterranean exchange relations

Gurukkal, Rajan

ISBN: 9780199460854, 019946085X

India's maritime contact with eastern Mediterranean and classical Rome (c. 1st century BCE-3rd century CE) has often been celebrated as `Indo-Roman trade'-a prominent theme in Indian historiography. The author critically rethinks this exchange relation-he argues that the expression `Indo-Roman trade', when examined in the light of extant source material and theoretical insights, is a misnomer.