Bullion for goods: European and Indian merchants in the Indian Ocean trade, 1500-1800 / Om Prakash

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Asia and the Pre-modern World Economy -- 2. Europeans, India and the Indian Ocean in the ' Early Modern Period -- 3. Was the Portuguese Asian Enterprise Redistributive? -- 4. The Dutch East India Company in the Trade of the Indian Ocean -- 5. Spice Trade in the Indian Ocean in the Early Modern Period -- 6. Restrictive Trading'Regimes: V.O.C. and the Asian Spice Trade in the Seventeenth Century -- 7. Trade in a Culturally Hostile Environment: Europeans in the Japan Trade, 1550-1700 -- 8. From Hostility to Collaboration: European Corporate Enterprise and Private Trade in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1800 -- 9. Some Aspects of Trade in Mughal India -- 10. Coastal Burma and the Trading World of the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1680 -- 11. The Trading World of India and South-East Asia in the Early Modern Period -- 12. The European Trading Companies and the Merchants of Bengal, 1650-1725 -- 13. Asian Trade and European Impact: A Study of the Trade from Bengal, 1630-1720 -- 14. Bullion for Goods: International Trade and the Economy of Early Eighteenth Century Bengal -- 15. European Trade and South Asian Economies: Some Regional Contrasts, 1600-1800 -- 16. Precious Metal Flows in Asia and World Economic Integration in the Seventeenth Century -- 17. Precious Metal Flows into India in the Early Modern Period -- 18. Foreign Merchants and Indian Mints in the Seventeenth and the Early Eighteenth Century -- 19. On Coinage in Mughal India -- 20. Precious Metal Flows, Coinage, and Prices in India in the Seventeenth and the Early Eighteenth Century -- 21. Sarrafs, Financial Intermediation, and Credit Network in Mughal India.