Maritime Trade, Society and European Influence in Southern Asia, 1600-1800

Pre-modern commerce and society in Southern Asia; The politics of commerce in the coastal kingdoms of Tamil Nad 1650-1700; Indian commercial groups and European traders, 1600-1800: changing relationships in southeastern India; Some notes on the Dutch in Malacca and the Indo-Malayan trade 1641-1670; Mare clausum, the Dutch and regional trade in the Indian Ocean 1650-1740; The Dutch East India Company and its Coromandel trade 1700-1740; Monopoly and free trade in Dutch-Asian commercial policy: debate and controversy within the VOC; Society, power, factionalism and corruption in early Madras 1640-1746; Factors in the rise, growth and decline of Coromandel ports circa 1650-1720; Indian intermediaries in the trade and administration of the French East India Company in the Coromandel (1670-1760); The Coromandel-Southeast Asia trade 1650-1740; Aspects of the role and activities of south Indian merchant communities c. 1650-1750; The Chulia Muslim merchants in Southeast Asia 1650-1800; Indian merchants and the decline of Indian mercantile activity: the Coromandel case; Trade and political dominion in south India, 1750-1790: changing British-Indian relationships; Weavers, merchants and company: the handloom industry in southeastern India 1750-1790; Index.