Companies, Commerce and Merchants

Sushil Chaudhury, former University Chair Professor of Islamic History & Culture, Calcutta University, is National Research Fellow, Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, England.

• 1. The Rise and Decline of Hugli: A Port in Medieval Bengal 2. Prices of Provisions in Bengal in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century: Moreland Refuted 3. The Myth of the English East India Company’s Trading Privileges in Bengal, 1651-1686 4. The Problem of Financing East India Company’s Investments in Bengal, 1650-1720 5. Textile Trade and Industry in Bengal Suba, 1650-1720 6. Bengal Merchants and Commercial Organisations in the Second Half of the Seventeenth Century 7. Saltpetre Trade and Industry in Bengal Suba, 1650-1720 8. Continuity or Change in the Eighteenth Century? Price Trends in Bengal, c. 1720-1757 9. European Companies and the Bengal Textile Industry in the Eighteenth Century: The Pitfalls of Applying Quantitative Techniques 10. European Companies and Pre-Modern South Asian Commercial System: A Study of Bengal in the Eighteenth Century 11. General Economic Conditions under the Nawabs 12. The Traffic in ‘Drug’ in Bengal Suba: A Study of Opium Trade and Production, 1700-1757 13. International Trade in Bengal Silk and the Comparative Role of Asians and Europeans, c. 1700-1757 14. Merchants, Companies and Rulers: Bengal in the Eighteenth Century 15. The Asian Merchants and Companies in Bengal’s Export Trade, c. Mid-eighteenth Century 16. The Inflow of Silver to Bengal in Global Perspective, c. 1650-1757 17. Was there a Crisis in Mid-eighteenth Century Bengal?