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Dutch Factories in India -- Volume II (1624-1627): A Collection of Dutch East India Company Documents Pertaining to India by Om Prakash (Hardback, 2007)

The records of the Dutch East India Company are recognised to be a major source material on Indian history for the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries. The Company, established in 1602, was the biggest trading entity of its time. It engaged in extensive trading operations in India for nearly two hundred years. The letters, reports and other documents available in the Company's archives contain an ermous amount of detail on a variety of subjects. While commercial and ecomic matters arising out of the Company's own trade in the subcontinent as well as that of its rivals, including the Indian merchants, figure prominently in its documentation, these are t the only concerns of these records. Political, social, religious, and other matters are often found to have been discussed extensively in these documents. A particular strength of these records is the solid quantitative data they contain on a large number of variables. The use of these documents for the writing of Indian history thus far has been somewhat restricted because of the barrier of both language and palaeography. The present collection, second in the series, makes these documents available in the English language with detailed antation.

Place of Publication
New Delhi
Content Note
1 Map
Author Biography
Professor Om Prakash retired recently as Professor of Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is a foreign fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam and of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Haarlem, The Netherlands. His major publications include The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720 (Princeton 1985), European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India, Vol. II. 5 in the New Cambridge History of India series (Cambridge 1998) and Bullion for Goods, European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800 (Delhi, 2004).
Date of Publication
01/01/2007
Country of Publication
India

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