Roy, Tirthankar (2014) Trading firms in colonial India. Business History Review, 88 (01). pp. 9-42. ISSN 0007-6805
Abstract
The aim of this article is to develop a general narrative of the firms that led the growth of trade in nineteenth-century India, and thus to supply a missing piece in modern Indian business history. The trading firms had several features in common with trading firms globally, especially, a high degree of mobility, institutional adaptation, and occasionally, diversification into banking and manufacturing. But certain aspects of the process were specific to the regions where they operated, such as differences between the ports and the interior trading orders, between cities, and between expatriate and indigenous firms. The article reconsiders these features.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJourna... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 The President and Fellows of Harvard College |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | N - Economic History > N0 - General > N00 - General |
| Sets: | Departments > Economic History |
| Date Deposited: | 13 May 2014 12:10 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/56752/ |
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