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The East India Trade (1500 to 1800 A.D.)

the east india trade
(1500 to 1800 A.D.)


This page is a thematic history page covering the period from 1500 to 1800, during which the hitherto limited mercantile connection between the Asian and European civilisations grew and expanded, and the beginning of a world economy was forged. I have more or less arbitrarily limited the period to the interval from the advent of the Portuguese explorers to the the emergence of the British Raj in India.

My own chief interest in the period is the Danish East India Company of the early and middle 17th century, and the Danish colony of Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast of India.


original material at this site

A glossary of useful terms for the period 1500-1750 (in Danish).

My own essay on the subject Tranquebar 1616-1669. The period of the first Danish East India Company.

A bibliography for the subject Tranquebar 1616-1669. Suggestions for additions are welcome.

general links

The British East India Company, a significant force in this period of history, is the subject of this page.

The British East India Company still exists. This is their own homepage. Their version of the company's history may also be found at this site.

The Dutch East India Company, the VOC, is covered in this (mostly Dutch) page by Stefan Deconinck.

The Village of the Dancing Waves is a historically-oriented travelogue of the town of Tarangambadi in India, the Tranquebar of the Danes. Thanks to Gert Nielsen in Malaysia for drawing my attention to this page.


Book recommendations:

A New History of India
by Stanley Wolpert

Mapping an Empire : The Geographical Construction of British India, 1765-1843
by Matthew H. Edney and Andrew T. Edney

Empire of Free Trade : The East India Company and the
Making of the Colonial Marketplace (Critical Histories)

by Sudipta Sen

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This page is the work of Peter Ravn Rasmussen.

Updated: September 2, 1998.

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