Masters and Banians in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgment IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Corruption and Corsairs in Sixteenth-Century Western India: A Functional Analysis 15
6. Asian Trade and European Impact: A Study of the Trade from Bengal, 1630-1720 43
7. Joint-Stock Companies of Coromandel 71
8. European Missionaries and Chinese Clergy, 1654-1810 97
9. Gujarati Merchants and the Red Sea Trade, 1700-1725 123
10. Dutch Commercial Policy and Interests in the Malay Peninsula, 1750-1795 159
11. Masters and Banians in Eighteenth-Century Calcutta 191
12. Alien and Empathic: The Indian Poems of N. B. Halhed 215
13. Holden Furber at Work 237
14. Contributors 249