Business History of India - Hardcover

The collective work critically examines the trends and patterns of Indian business through the ages bringing the story down to modern times when it fuses with nationalism. A book of immense help to the engaged in History and economics discipline,and revivalists., About The Author:- Dr. Chittabrata Palit, Prof. of History at Jadavpur University, Kolkata, and a renowned Economic Historian. Dr. Pranjal kumar Bhattocharya, is a retired Professor of History at Jadavpur University, Calutta., Contents:- Contents # Preface Introduction List of Contributors 1. Business in the Ancient Period : Some Methodological Issues 2. A Leaf from the Smritis : In Memory of the First Tentative Ventures into Legal and Commercial Enterprises 3. Business in Early Bengal (Pre-Gupta Phase) : A Numismatic Approach 4. Seventeenth Century Merchant Capital : The Case Study of Surat 5. Revealing and Concealing : The Business World of Middlemen and Merchants in the French Commercial Enterprise in Pondicherry (1674-1741) 6. Two Indian Brokers of the French East India Company in Eastern India During the First Half of the Eighteenth Century 7. The Nawab?s Business : Agricultural and Commercial Practices in Eighteenth Century Bengal 8. The Salt Merchants of Bengal (1757-1800) 9. From Artisan to Merchant : Looking from Below Smriti 10.The Brown Ships in the Indian Ocean : The American Merchants and the Bengali Banians 1790-1880. 11.More about Swadeshi Economic Thinking : Bengal in the Late 19th and Early 20 centuries 12.Bengali Business Enterprise and the BNCCI 13.The Marwaris : Transition from Trader to Industrialist 14.Caste, Religious Traditions, Society and Business Network : A Case Study of the Marwari Community in North Bengal.