Indigenous Capital and Imperial Expansion: Bombay, Surat and the West Coast

by Lakshmi Subramanian

This new work highlights the critical role played by Bania credit and capital in the English triumph over the Maratha Confederacy in Western India at the turn of the century. Linking the process of Imperial expansion to the dynamics of Indian credit, trade, and society, this tale of two cities--Surat and Bombay--the author shows how merchant communities coped between two empires, the Mughal and the British.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195635590
• ISBN13: 9780195635591
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.8"