[A] welcome addition to our understanding of technology transfer in colonial context and its wider consequences on the colony and the metropole.

• Introduction: Companies, Political Economy and the Great DivergenceEarly Modern Silk Industry, Trade and MercantilismEmpire, the English East India Company and Bengal Raw SilkBengal, Piedmont and the English East India CompanyThe Bengal Silk Industry and the English East India CompanyFilatures and Performance in the Bengal Silk IndustryThe Bengal Silk Industry and British Laissez-faire PoliciesBengal Raw Silk and British Demand in the Nineteenth CenturyConclusionAppendix A: Description of the Piedmontese Reeling Machine by Dionysius LardnerAppendix B: Average Prices of Bengal Raw Silk on the British Market according to the Type of the Silk, 1796-1856Appendix C: Components of the EEIC's Business ModelAppendix D: Returns to Investment AnalysisAppendix E: Comparison of Manufacturing Costs at the EEIC's Experimental Filature and Common Filature in its Vicinity, 1832Appendix F: Mechanisation of Silk Throwing in England, 1856Appendix G: Types of Silkworks Reared in Bengal Silk Districts, 1818BibliographyIndex

[A] welcome addition to our understanding of technology transfer in colonial context and its wider consequences on the colony and the metropole.

• Introduction: Companies, Political Economy and the Great DivergenceEarly Modern Silk Industry, Trade and MercantilismEmpire, the English East India Company and Bengal Raw SilkBengal, Piedmont and the English East India CompanyThe Bengal Silk Industry and the English East India CompanyFilatures and Performance in the Bengal Silk IndustryThe Bengal Silk Industry and British Laissez-faire PoliciesBengal Raw Silk and British Demand in the Nineteenth CenturyConclusionAppendix A: Description of the Piedmontese Reeling Machine by Dionysius LardnerAppendix B: Average Prices of Bengal Raw Silk on the British Market according to the Type of the Silk, 1796-1856Appendix C: Components of the EEIC's Business ModelAppendix D: Returns to Investment AnalysisAppendix E: Comparison of Manufacturing Costs at the EEIC's Experimental Filature and Common Filature in its Vicinity, 1832Appendix F: Mechanisation of Silk Throwing in England, 1856Appendix G: Types of Silkworks Reared in Bengal Silk Districts, 1818BibliographyIndex

[A] welcome addition to our understanding of technology transfer in colonial context and its wider consequences on the colony and the metropole.

• Introduction: Companies, Political Economy and the Great DivergenceEarly Modern Silk Industry, Trade and MercantilismEmpire, the English East India Company and Bengal Raw SilkBengal, Piedmont and the English East India CompanyThe Bengal Silk Industry and the English East India CompanyFilatures and Performance in the Bengal Silk IndustryThe Bengal Silk Industry and British Laissez-faire PoliciesBengal Raw Silk and British Demand in the Nineteenth CenturyConclusionAppendix A: Description of the Piedmontese Reeling Machine by Dionysius LardnerAppendix B: Average Prices of Bengal Raw Silk on the British Market according to the Type of the Silk, 1796-1856Appendix C: Components of the EEIC's Business ModelAppendix D: Returns to Investment AnalysisAppendix E: Comparison of Manufacturing Costs at the EEIC's Experimental Filature and Common Filature in its Vicinity, 1832Appendix F: Mechanisation of Silk Throwing in England, 1856Appendix G: Types of Silkworks Reared in Bengal Silk Districts, 1818BibliographyIndex