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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.
*''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/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 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
:[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://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=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://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/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
*[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: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'': Archive.org mirror versionsby Place, Siddons and Gough, Stock and Share Brokers, originally from Digital Library of IndiaCalcutta. : [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501840 Edition 15, 1927-28] Archive; [https://archive.org mirror version/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] Archive; [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] Archive.org; [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.99828 Ed. 36, pub. 1950] . Archive.orgmirror 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
