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**[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.
**[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
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India''] by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org   
*[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_7oFZAAAAYAAJ ''An account of the trade in India: containing rules for good government in trade, price courants, and tables: with descriptions of Fort St. George, Acheen, Malacca, Condore, Canton, Anjengo, Muskat, Gombroon, Surat, Goa, Carwar, Telichery, Panola, Calicut, the Cape of Good-Hope, and St. Helena... To which is added, An Account of the Management of the Dutch in their Affairs in India''] by Charles Lockyer 1711 Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/b33003130/page/n5/mode/2up 2nd file] 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
*''A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies'' by Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 1804 edition, first published in an English translation 1783 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Qqw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3  Volume 1],[http://books.google.com/books?id=2as1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 2]  (out of 6 volumes) Google Books
*''A philosophical and political history of the settlements and trade of the Europeans in the East and West Indies'' by Abbé Guillaume-Thomas-François Raynal 1804 edition, first published in an English translation 1783 [http://books.google.com/books?id=Qqw1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PR3  Volume 1],[http://books.google.com/books?id=2as1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PP5 Volume 2]  (out of 6 volumes) Google Books
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:[http://www.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5  1825 revised edition], [http://www.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents] by  William Milburn and Thomas Thornton  Google Books
:[http://www.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP5  1825 revised edition], [http://www.google.com/books?id=qGIOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP11 Contents] by  William Milburn and Thomas Thornton  Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283924/page/n1 ''Trade In The Eastern Seas 1793-1813''] by C. Northcote Parkinson 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.283924/page/n1 ''Trade In The Eastern Seas 1793-1813''] by C. Northcote Parkinson 1937 Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=U1oOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The East Indian calculator, or, Tables for assisting computation of batta, interest, commission, rent, wages, &c. in Indian money: with copious tables of the exchanges between London, Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and of the relative value of coins current in Hindostan : tables of the weights of India and China, with their respective proportions, &c. : to which is subjoined an account of the monies, weights, and measures of India, China, Persia, Arabia, &c‬''] by Thomas Thornton 1823 Google Books
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=U1oOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''The East Indian calculator, or, Tables for assisting computation of batta, interest, commission, rent, wages, &c. in Indian money: with copious tables of the exchanges between London, Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay, and of the relative value of coins current in Hindostan : tables of the weights of India and China, with their respective proportions, &c. : to which is subjoined an account of the monies, weights, and measures of India, China, Persia, Arabia, &c‬''] by Thomas Thornton 1823 Google Books. [https://archive.org/details/in.gov.ignca.24229/page/n7/mode/2up Archive.org version], mirror from Archaeological Survey of India collection at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts.
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover  ''Useful Tables, forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, Weights, and Measures of British India''] by James Prinsep 1834 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=BTYGAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover  ''Useful Tables, forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: part the first, Coins, Weights, and Measures of British India''] by James Prinsep 1834 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8NxDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3  ''Sketch of the commercial resources and monetary and mercantile system of British India: with suggestions for their improvement, by means of banking establishments''] 1837 Google Books
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=8NxDAAAAYAAJ&pg=PR3  ''Sketch of the commercial resources and monetary and mercantile system of British India: with suggestions for their improvement, by means of banking establishments''] 1837 Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/investmentinempi0000thor/page/n5 ''Investment in Empire; British railway and steam shipping enterprise in India, 1825-1849''] by Daniel Thorner 1950. Archive.org Lending Library.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India'']1850 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents]  Includes Vocabulary, Monetary System, Weights, Linear Measures etc.
*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP7 ''The Anglo-Hindoostanee Handbook; or, Stranger’s Self-Interpreter and Guide to Colloquial and General Intercourse with the Natives of India'']1850 Google Books. [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=6LwIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP17 Contents]  Includes Vocabulary, Monetary System, Weights, Linear Measures etc.
*[https://archive.org/details/chinesecommerci00willgoog/page/n11 ''The Chinese commercial guide : containing treaties, tariffs, regulations, tables, etc useful in the trade to China & Eastern Asia : with an appendix of sailing directions for those seas and coasts''] by  S. Wells Williams 5th edition 1863 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/chinesecommerci00willgoog/page/n11 ''The Chinese commercial guide : containing treaties, tariffs, regulations, tables, etc useful in the trade to China & Eastern Asia : with an appendix of sailing directions for those seas and coasts''] by  S. Wells Williams 5th edition 1863 Archive.org
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*[https://archive.org/details/historyandproble032929mbp ''History and Problems of Indian Currency 1835-1949''] by D K Malhotra 1949 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/historyandproble032929mbp ''History and Problems of Indian Currency 1835-1949''] by D K Malhotra 1949 Archive.org
*[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 [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q-uCPTZMDmQC&pg=PA65  page 65] ''Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries'' by Geoffrey Jones 2002 Preview Google Books
*[https://archive.org/details/europeanagencyho0000sing/page/n3 ''European Agency Houses in Bengal (1783-1833)''] by S B Singh 1966. Archive.org Books to Borrow/Lending Library
*''The Investor’s India Year-Book'': Archive.org mirror versions, originally from  Digital Library of India.  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501840 Edition 15, 1927-28] Archive.org mirror version;  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96543  Ed. 31, 1943-44] Archive.org;    [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99827 Ed. 35, pub. 1949] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99828  Ed. 36, pub. 1950] Archive.org.
:British Agency Houses in India are mentioned [https://books.google.com.au/books?id=q-uCPTZMDmQC&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'' by Place, Siddons and Gough, Stock and Share Brokers, Calcutta.: [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501840 Edition 15, 1927-28];    [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1214/page/n25/mode/2up Ed. 22, 1934-35];  [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96543  Ed. 31, 1943-44];    [https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.1215/page/n29/mode/2up  Ed. 33  1945-47];    [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99827 Ed. 35, pub. 1949];     [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99828  Ed. 36, pub. 1950]. Archive.org mirror versions, originally from  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



Latest revision as of 23:59, 1 November 2022

Bank of Bengal, Calcutta

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

See also:

External links

Maps

Historical books online

Steel's Tables of the British Custom and Excise Duties: With the Drawbacks, Bounties, & Allowances, Disposed in a New and More Perspicuous Alphabetical Arrangement Than Any Heretofore by David Steel Second edition, very considerably improved 1801 Google Books. Includes East-India Goods imported, page 25.
  • "East Indies" from The Universal Cambist, and Commercial Instructor: being a general treatise on exchange, including the monies, coins, weights and measures of all trading nations and their colonies : with an account of their banks and paper currencies, Volume 1 by Patrick Kelly 1811 Google Books
  • Oriental commerce: containing a geographical description of the principal places in the East Indies, China, and Japan, with their produce, manufactures, and trade by William Milburn 1813 Google Books
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
Most of/all the remaining volumes are available on Archive.org, as mirror versions from the Digital Library of India. Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia; Vol-IV Gossypium to Lonociera; Vol-V Linum to Oyster; Vol-Vi Part-I Pachyrhizus to Rye ; Vol-VI Part-IV Tectona to Zygophillum: Archive.org together with an Index volume: Archive.org version.
Includes Vol. V: "Malt Liquors" page 124. Brewing in India of Ale, Beer etc, including breweries.
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.
British Agency Houses in India are mentioned page 65 Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries by Geoffrey Jones 2002 Preview Google Books

References

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