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*[http://www.biship.com/history.htm A Short History of British India Steam Navigation 1856-1956] from B I Ship. Contains details of the firm of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, and the establishment of The Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Co Ltd which became the British India Steam Navigation Co | *[http://www.biship.com/history.htm A Short History of British India Steam Navigation 1856-1956] from B I Ship. Contains details of the firm of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, and the establishment of The Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Co Ltd which became the British India Steam Navigation Co | ||
*[http://iserp.columbia.edu/research-initiatives/working-paper-series/routes-networks-structure-english-trade-east-indies-1601-1 "Routes into Networks: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601-1833"] by Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman 2004. Columbia University Working Papers Series | *[http://iserp.columbia.edu/research-initiatives/working-paper-series/routes-networks-structure-english-trade-east-indies-1601-1 "Routes into Networks: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601-1833"] by Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman 2004. Columbia University Working Papers Series | ||
*[http://eh.net/node/2731 Review] of the book ''The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760'' by K. N. Chaudhuri. Originally published 1978, reprinted 2006. Look at the [http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0521031591/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&seller=#reader_0521031591 Contents] Available from Amazon.co.uk through the [http://astore.amazon.co.uk/faminbriindso-21/detail/0521031591 FIBIS Shop] | |||
===Historical books online=== | ===Historical books online=== | ||
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=0EEuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115 "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 | *[http://books.google.com/books?id=0EEuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA115 "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 | ||
Revision as of 11:03, 22 September 2010
Information on Merchants and Bankers, Trade and Commerce.
See also:
External links
- Merchants and Bankers Dan Byrnes’ site has many references to India related merchants and trade.
- 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:
- On the Hodson Lists for Families of British India
- Decline of indigo business in India
- Listings for British-India (but you must scroll down this page a considerable way)
- The email listings, both old and new also contain references to India.
- Mussoorie Merchant:The Indian Letters of Mauger Fitzhugh Monk 1828 - 1849 published by Pagoda Tree Press
- A Short History of British India Steam Navigation 1856-1956 from B I Ship. Contains details of the firm of Mackinnon, Mackenzie & Co, and the establishment of The Calcutta & Burmah Steam Navigation Co Ltd which became the British India Steam Navigation Co
- "Routes into Networks: The Structure of English Trade in the East Indies, 1601-1833" by Emily Erikson and Peter Bearman 2004. Columbia University Working Papers Series
- Review of the book The Trading World of Asia and the English East India Company, 1660-1760 by K. N. Chaudhuri. Originally published 1978, reprinted 2006. Look at the Contents Available from Amazon.co.uk through the FIBIS Shop
Historical books online
- "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
- "Commerce and Companies": being a reprint from "The Pioneer", from August 1884 to September 1885 1885 Archive.org
- The history of the Bank of Bengal: an epitome of a hundred years of banking in India by CP Symes Scutt 1904 Archive.org
- Businesses in Calcutta c 1917 from Bengal and Assam, Behar and Orissa : their history, people, commerce and industrial resources by Somerset Playne , J W Bond 1917 Archive.org