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Seventeenth Century Commerce

3 articles on Seventeenth Century Commerce from The Indian Historical Quarterly, Journal of Indian History and Culture, published 1936–2018. Each entry has a summary of the article; open it for the full summary, citation and original PDF.

3 articles1936–20182 journals
The Indian Historical Quarterly · 2Journal of Indian History and Culture · 1

Articles on Seventeenth Century Commerce

  1. English East India Company and Coromandel Coast Merchants

    By S. Babu · Journal of Indian History and Culture, 2018

    The arrival of European trading companies, particularly the English East India Company, on the Coromandel Coast in the seventeenth century transformed regional commerce through interactions with indigenous merchants. Facing challenges like market complexity,…

  2. The Silk Trade of Patna in Early Seventeenth Century

    By Jagadish Narayan Sarkar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1939

    This comprehensive study traces the early seventeenth‑century silk trade centred on Patna and its integration into global commerce. Patna was already known for cotton goods, but English factors discovered that the city and surrounding region were a thriving…

  3. The Cotton Trade of Patna in early Seventeenth Century

    By Jagadish Narayan Sarkar · The Indian Historical Quarterly, 1936

    This paper investigates the cotton trade of Patna during the early seventeenth century, drawing on factory records, letters and travellers’ accounts. The author describes the narrow width of ambati cloth (also called ambari) woven in Patna; each piece…