Spatial and Temporal Continuities of Merchant Networks in South Asia and the Indian Ocean (1500-2000)

Authors: Bhattacharya, Bhaswati¹; Dharampal-Frick, Gita²; Gommans, Jos¹

Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Volume 50, Numbers 2-3, 2007 , pp. 91-105(15)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

We believe ourselves to be the most astute men that one can encounter, and the people here surpass us in everything. And there are Moorish merchants worth 400,000 to 500,000 ducats. And they can do better calculations by memory than we can do with the pen. And they mock us, and it seems to me that they are superior to us in countless things, save with sword in hand, which they cannot resist.

Document Type: Miscellaneous

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852007781787404

Affiliations: 1: Kern Institute, Leiden University 2: South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg

Publication date: 2007-06-01