Merchant

Information on Merchants and Bankers, Trade and Commerce.

See also:

• Commerce and trade reading list
• Opium trade

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

Historical books online

• 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