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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindiatradein00khanuoft ''The East India Trade in the XVIIth century, in its Political and Economic Aspects''] by Shafaat Ahmad Khan 1923 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/eastindiatradein00khanuoft ''The East India Trade in the XVIIth century, in its Political and Economic Aspects''] by Shafaat Ahmad Khan 1923 Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/534093 ''Trade And Commercial Organization In Bengal (1650-1720)''] by Susil  Chaudhuri 1975 Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/534093 ''Trade And Commercial Organization In Bengal (1650-1720)''] by Susil  Chaudhuri 1975 Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.534093 Archive.org mirror version].
*[https://archive.org/details/cihm_32096 ''A geographical description of the four parts of the world taken from the notes & workes of the famous Monsieur Sanson, geographer to the french king, and other eminent travellers and authors. To which are added the commodities, coyns, weights, and measures of the chief places of traffick in the world, compared with those of England, (or London) as to the trade thereof. Also, a treatise of travel, and another of traffick, wherein the matter of trade is briefly handled: the whole illustrated with variety of useful and delightful mapps and figures''] by Richard Blome 1670 Archive.org
**[https://archive.org/stream/cihm_32096#page/n67/mode/2up  India] page  49. “His atlas is full of information that merchants needed to conduct business overseas, with sections on each part of the world. The section on ‘India or the East Indies’ gives details of goods available at important trading centres such as Surat, the East India Company’s first base in India. Other information vital to traders is explained, for instance on coins, weights and measures. <ref>[http://blogs.bl.uk/untoldlives/2017/09/east-india-company-trade-with-the-east-indies.html East India Company trade with the East Indies] 05 September 2017 British Library Untold Lives Blog.</ref> Unfortunately the text may be difficult to read at times. Also available in the Gale subscription database "The Making of the Modern World: The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850", see [[Subscription websites-online newspapers, journals and directories|Subscription websites]], for suggested  access, as possibly the text may be clearer.
*''Travels in India by Jean Baptiste Tavernier, baron of Aubonne, tr. from the original French edition of 1676, with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, etc., by V. Ball''. 1889  [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00tavegoog#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org  
*''Travels in India by Jean Baptiste Tavernier, baron of Aubonne, tr. from the original French edition of 1676, with a biographical sketch of the author, notes, appendices, etc., by V. Ball''. 1889  [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00unkngoog#page/n8/mode/2up Volume 1], [http://www.archive.org/stream/travelsinindia00tavegoog#page/n9/mode/2up Volume 2] Archive.org  
*''A new account of the East Indies'' by Alexander Hamilton 1744 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-jNagGDT-PsC&pg=PR1  Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=cV7RhS7iEV0C&pg=RA1-PR4 Volume 2] Google Books
*''A new account of the East Indies'' by Alexander Hamilton 1744 [http://books.google.com/books?id=-jNagGDT-PsC&pg=PR1  Volume 1], [http://books.google.com/books?id=cV7RhS7iEV0C&pg=RA1-PR4 Volume 2] Google Books
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*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeassuranceini032319mbp#page/n3/mode/2up ''Life Assurance In India''] by P.A.S. Mani 1950 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/lifeassuranceini032319mbp#page/n3/mode/2up ''Life Assurance In India''] by P.A.S. Mani 1950 Archive.org
*British Agency Houses in India are mentioned [http://books.google.com/books?id=g39R7HVHbBcC&pg=PA65  page 65] ''Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' by Geoffrey Jones 2002 Preview Google Books
*British Agency Houses in India are mentioned [http://books.google.com/books?id=g39R7HVHbBcC&pg=PA65  page 65] ''Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' by Geoffrey Jones 2002 Preview Google Books
*''The Investor’s India Year-Book'':  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501840 (1927-28) Ed. 15th], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236804 1934-35], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/96543  (1943-44) Ed. 31st], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236805 1945-47 (1947)],  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99827 edition 35, pub. 1949], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99828 edition 36, pub. 1950]. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28The%20Investors%20India%20Year%20Book%29  Archive.org Mirror editions A] and [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28The%20Investor%27s%20India%20Year%20Book%29 B]
*''The Investor’s India Year-Book'':  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501840 (1927-28) Ed. 15th], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501840 Archive.org mirror version]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236804 1934-35], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/96543  (1943-44) Ed. 31st], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96543 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/236805 1945-47 (1947)],  [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99827 edition 35, pub. 1949], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99827 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99828 edition 36, pub. 1950], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99828 Archive.org]. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookoflondon00pricuoft ''A handbook of London bankers, with some account of their predecessors the early goldsmiths : together with lists of bankers from 1670, including the earliest printed in 1677, to that of the London post office directory of 1890 ...''] by F G Hilton Price 1890 Archive.org. Also earlier [https://archive.org/details/ahandbooklondon00pricgoog 1876 edition] Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/handbookoflondon00pricuoft ''A handbook of London bankers, with some account of their predecessors the early goldsmiths : together with lists of bankers from 1670, including the earliest printed in 1677, to that of the London post office directory of 1890 ...''] by F G Hilton Price 1890 Archive.org. Also earlier [https://archive.org/details/ahandbooklondon00pricgoog 1876 edition] Archive.org
 
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Bank of Bengal, Calcutta

Information on Merchants and Bankers, Trade and Commerce, including Banks

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Other parts of the site can be accessed via Merchant Networks. A search facility is available at the bottom of the page. India related information includes:
The email listings, both old and new also contain references to India.

Historical books online

Volume 1. Contents, Volume 1. India commences Chapter 12, page 154. Volume 2, Contents, Volume 2
1825 revised edition, Contents by William Milburn and Thomas Thornton Google Books
‪Hand-book of the Manufactures and Arts of the Punjab: Forming Vol. II to the "Hand-book of the Economic Products of the Punjab."‬ by B H Baden Powell, H M Bengal Civil Service 1872 Google Books‪
All the remaining volumes are available to read online on the Digital Library of India website. (Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus: Link to pdf download ; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia: Link to pdf download ; Vol-IV (Gossypium to Lonociera): Link to pdf download  ; Vol-V (Linum to Oyster): Link to pdf download  ; Vol-Vi Part-I (Pachyrhizus to Rye): Link to pdf download ; Vol-VI Part-IV (Tectona to Zygophillum) Link to pdf download, with mirror editions available on Archive.org together with an Index volume: Link to pdf download, DLI, Archive.org version. Restricted viewing, probably accessible to those in North America, and some other countries: Hathi Trust Digital Library ten volumes
The commercial products of India : being an abridgment of The dictionary of the economic products of India by Sir George Watt 1908 Archive.org Index
The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age: From the Accession of Queen Victoria in 1837.... Original title was India in the Victorian Age; an Economic History of the People 1904 edition, 3rd edition 1908 Archive.org.

References

  1. East India Company trade with the East Indies 05 September 2017 British Library Untold Lives Blog.