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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] | *[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]. The 1978 edition is available at the [[British Library]] | ||
===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 11:15, 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. The 1978 edition is available at the British Library
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