The Arabian Seas. The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century, R.J. Barendse, New York: New York, M.E. Sharpe, 2002, ISBN 0-7656-0729-8 (paper) 500 pp., some small map insets in the text, index, appendix with weights, measures, currencies, glossary, bibliography, index.

2004 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 360-363
Author(s):  
Willem Floor
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
Arabian Seas

Intersections: Peoples, ports and trade in seventeenth-century Surat and Madras

2017 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-122
Author(s):  
Radhika Seshan
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
North India ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World

The article discusses the ways in which, in the seventeenth century, as India drew the attention of more Europeans, both as private traders and as part of larger east India companies, networks of contacts were established. Two ports in particular, Surat and Madras (now Chennai), became points of intersection of Europeans and Asians, through the multi-pronged trade networks that linked these two ports to other ports in the Indian Ocean world, through traders from across regions. Focus is on the English in particular, as their main port of trade for Mughal North India was Surat, and Madras, their first fortified establishment on the coast of India.

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