English Private Trade in the Western Indian Ocean, 1720-1740

Author: Prakash, Om¹

Source: Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, Volume 50, Numbers 2-3, 2007 , pp. 215-234(20)

Publisher: BRILL

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Abstract:

The paper first situates the trade carried on by private European traders in the overall framework of the Indian Ocean trade in the early-modern period. It then discusses in some detail the trading network of private English merchants in the Western Indian Ocean with special reference to the Surat-Mocha link in the 1720s and the 1730s. The evidence base is provided mainly by the private papers of Sir Robert Cowan, governor of Bombay between 1729 and 1734 and a major English private trader, operating in collaboration with Henry Lowther, chief of the English factory at Surat.

Keywords: PRIVATE TRADE; INDIAN OCEAN; EAST INDIA COMPANIES; SURAT; MOCHA

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1163/156852007781787396

Affiliations: 1: Delhi School of Economics

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