Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
British beginnings in western India, 1579-1657: an account of the early days of the British factory of Surat

British beginnings in western India, 1579-1657: an account of the early days of the British factory of Surat

G. Rawlinson, H.

Paperback

EconomicsGeneral World HistoryBritish History

ISBN10: 9353704693
ISBN13: 9789353704698
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: May 1 2019
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.53
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Before empire, there was a ledger. And a dusty waterfront in Surat. Trade came first, politics followed. In British beginnings in western India, 1579-1657, H. G. Rawlinson traces the precarious start of the Surat British factory, when a handful of English merchants in India bargained for space, protection, and profit at the edge of Mughal power. Set against western India 1579-1657, this early modern history book brings the smells and stakes of Mughal era commerce into sharp focus: ships and silver, gifts and grievances, rival companies and local officials, all circling a single gateway to the subcontinent. Part colonial history monograph and part annotated document collection, Rawlinson distils correspondence, reports, and administrative records into a readable narrative while keeping the scholar's apparatus close at hand. Its careful chronology shows how small commercial decisions became precedent, illuminating diplomacy, conflict, and daily logistics in the factory and on the road between court and coast, year after year. The result is a South Asian history reference that serves students as an academic colonial studies text, yet rewards general readers who want the human scale behind the East India Company origins and early British India trade. For collectors, it is also a key witness to Surat Gujarat port history and the wider story of how European presence hardened into policy. Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.

Also in

General World History

View All