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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
*[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
*''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
*[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
*''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]. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/searchdetails/in.ernet.php?query=title%3A%28The%20Investors%20India%20Year%20Book%29 dli.2015.99828 Archive.org Mirror editions A] and [https://archive.org/searchPdf downloads, Digital Library of India.php?query=title%3A%28The%20Investor%27s%20India%20Year%20Book%29 B]
*[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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