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*[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]originally from Digital Library of India.
*[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.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/indianempireitsp00hunt#page/554/mode/2up "Commerce and Trade"] page 555 ''The Indian Empire, its People, History, and Products'' by William Wilson Hunter 2nd Edition 1886 Archive.org [http://www.archive.org/stream/indianempireitsp00hunt#page/n31/mode/2up Contents]
*''A Dictionary of the Economic Products of India'' by George Watt There were ten volumes in total, including an Index volume [https://archive.org/details/adictionaryecon00wattgoog Volume I, Abaca to Buxus] 1885; [https://archive.org/details/adictionaryecon00agrigoog Volume VI, Part II Sabadilla to Silica] 1893; [https://archive.org/details/adictionaryecon01agrigoog Volume VI, Part III Silk to Tea] 1893 Archive.org
:All Most of/all the remaining volumes are available to read online on Archive.org, as mirror versions from the [[Online books#Digital Library of India| Digital Library of India]] website. (Vol- II Cabbage to Cyperus: [http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32869 ; Link to pdf download] ; Vol- III Dacrydium to Gordonia: [http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32870 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-IV (Gossypium to Lonociera): [http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/32871 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-V (Linum to Oyster): [http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/449489 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-Vi Part-I (Pachyrhizus to Rye): [http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/83728 Link to pdf download] ; Vol-VI Part-IV (Tectona to Zygophillum) [http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/109127 Link to pdf download], with mirror editions available on [https://archive.org/search.php?query=title%3A%28A+Dictionary+of+the+Economic+Products+of+India%29&and%5B%5D=collection%3A%22digitallibraryindia%22&sort=-date Archive.org] together with an Index volume: [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/206825 Link to pdf download, DLI], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.206825 Archive.org version]. '''Restricted viewing''', probably accessible to those in North America, and some other countries: [http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001318531 Hathi Trust Digital Library] ten volumes
:[https://archive.org/details/commercialproduc00wattuoft ''The commercial products of India : being an abridgment of The dictionary of the economic products of India''] by Sir George Watt 1908 Archive.org [https://archive.org/stream/commercialproduc00wattuoft#page/1144/mode/2up Index]
*[https://archive.org/details/economichistoryo00dutt ''The Economic History of India under early British rule, from the rise of the British power in 1757 to the accession of Queen Victoria in 1837''] by Romesh Dutt 6th edition 1920 Archive.org. First published c 1902.
:''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'' [https://archive.org/details/indiainvictorian00duttuoft 1904 edition], [https://archive.org/details/economichistory00duttgoog 3rd edition 1908] Archive.org.
*''Monograph'' Series, Bengal. Subsequently republished in 1976 as [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/108019 ''Art in industry through the ages : Monograph series on Bengal''] Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.108019 Archive.org version]mirror from Digital Library of India. This book consists of 11 monographs, listed in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1026466 catalogue record] nla.gov.au. See [[Bengal (Presidency)]] for individual monographs available online, including some not included in the reprint edition.
*Monograph Series, Madras. Republished in 1982 as ''Art in industry through the ages. Monograph series on Madras Presidency / Southern India'', whose contents of 8 monographs may be seen in this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1951597 catalogue record] nla.gov.au. See [[Madras (Presidency)]] for for individual monographs available online.
*[http://www.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/34719 ''A Monograph On Dyes And Dyeing In The Bombay Presidency''] by C G H Fawcett. [Sir Charles Gordon Hill Fawcett] 1896. Uniform Title: ''Miscellaneous Official Publications''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.34719 Archive.org version]mirror from Digital Library of India. Subsequently republished in 1976 as part of ''Art in industry through the ages : monograph series on Bombay Presidency'', with this [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/898370 catalogue record for contents] nla.gov.au.
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924022945129#page/n3/mode/2up ''The history of the Bank of Bengal: an epitome of a hundred years of banking in India''] by CP Symes Scutt 1904 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/oldcountrytradeo00coatrich ''The Old 'Country Trade' of the East Indies''] by William Herbert Coates, Comm. R N R (retired) 1911 Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/bengalassambehar00playuoft#page/72/mode/2up 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
*[https://archive.org/details/moneybankingexch00jevouoft ''Money, Banking and Exchange in India''] by Herbert Stanley Jevons 1922. Archive.org
*[http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/1011 ''Early European Banking in India : With some reflections on present conditions''] by H Sinha,1927 may be downloaded as a pdf from the Digital Library of India. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.236602 Archive.org version], different file]mirror from Digital Library of India.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in1093/handlepage/2015/228670 n3 ''Organised Banking in the days of John Company 1800-1857. With special reference to Early Banking in Bombay''] by B. Ramachandra Rau 1931. Archive.org, mirror from Digital Library of India.* ''History of Indian Currency and Exchange''] by B.E. Dadachanji 3rd enlarged edition 1934 is available as a pdf download, Digital Library of India. The [httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/in.ernet.dli.ernet2015.in228670/handlepage/2015/217960 1927n1 Archive.org version], 2nd edition] is also mirror from Digital Library of India. Also available. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217960 2nd edition 1927 Archive.org version 1927]mirror from Digital Library of India.*[httphttps://wwwarchive.neworg/details/dli.dlibengal.ernet10689.in/handle23137/2015page/30268 n3 ''Banking In India''] by S. G. Panandikar 19345th edition 1945. [http://wwwPoor quality text images.new Archive.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/513720 3rd Edition 1940]. Pdf downloads, Digital Library of Indiaorg. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.513720 3rd Edition 1940 Archive.org version 1940], mirror from Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/problemsofindian031261mbp ''Problems of Indian Currency and Exchange''] by N R Sarker 1944 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
*British Agency Houses in India are mentioned [httphttps://books.google.com.au/books?id=g39R7HVHbBcCq-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'': Archive.org mirror versions, originally from [http://wwwDigital Library of India.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/501840 (1927-28) Ed. 15th], [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501840 Edition 15, 1927-28] Archive.org mirror version]; [httphttps://wwwarchive.new.dli.ernet.inorg/handledetails/2015/236804 1934-35], [http://wwwin.newernet.dli.ernet2015.in/handle/2015/96543 (Ed. 31, 1943-44) Ed] Archive. 31st], org; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.96543 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet99827 Ed.in/handle/2015/236805 1945-47 (1947)], [http://www.new.dli.ernet.in/handle/2015/99827 edition 35, pub. 1949], Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99827 Archive.org]; [http://www.new.dli.ernet99828 Ed.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
