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Asian Trade
Author_Catherine Manning
Bales
bourdonnais
Category=KCLT
Category=KCZ
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Category=NHF
chanda
Chanda Sahib
coast
colonial economic history
Compagnie Des Indes
coromandel
Coromandel Coast
council
Country Trade
cross-cultural trade networks
eighteenth-century India
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European trading companies
Free Merchants
French Community
French Company
French Country
French Governor
French Private Trade
French Ships
French Trade
French-Indian trade relations analysis
Gross Profit
Ile De Bourbon
Indian Merchants
La Bourdonnais
Military Expenditure
Nizam Ul Mulk
Port Authorities
private
private merchant activities
Private Traders
Qui
sahib
South Indian commerce
superior
Superior Council
trade
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780860785521
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Oct 1996
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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The history of the French in India has received far less scholarly attention than that of other European nations; English historiography, in particular, has often treated it as no more than a preliminary to the extension of British power. In addition, work hitherto has tended to focus on the trade with Europe, not the Asian trade - the 'country trade' carried on within Asia; the full importance of this trade for the Dutch and British is now being recognised. This book represents the first sustained study of French activities in Asian trade, and fills this gap in the historiography. Catherine Manning is concerned to relate the French traders to their social, regional and financial roots, and to trace their connections with other commercial groups in India, both European and Asian. The French evidence that she assembles, including much archival material, also makes a significant contibution to the debate about economic decline and renewal in 18th-century India. Her analysis stresses the importance of the Indian context, and shows that economic and political developments in South India were crucial to the French move from trade to war in the 1740s. Finally the book examines why the French failed in an enterprise which was to succeed so signally for the British only a few decades later.
Catherine Manning
