Connecting the Indian Ocean World

Radhika Seshan is former head and retired professor of the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University, and is now visiting faculty at the Symbiosis School for Liberal Arts, Pune, India. Her work has been primarily in the areas of economic history, particularly maritime and urban history of early modern India. Author of three books, she has edited or co-edited many others, and her most recent publication is Wage Earners in India 1500–1900: Regional Approaches in an International Context, co-edited with Jan Lucassen (2022). Ryuto Shimada is associate professor, Department of Asian History, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo. The author of The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century (2006), he has published extensively in Japanese and in English on aspects of the networks of the Indian Ocean world in the early modern age.

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Introduction: Connections in the Indian Ocean World

Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada

PART I

Connections by Sea

1 Markets and Competition: Opium Trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century

Shohei Okubo

2 Safavid Mission to Siam and the Indian Ocean World in the Late Seventeenth Century

Tomoko Morikawa

3 West Africa and France in the Rebuilding of Pondicherry after 1816: The Case of Textile Industry

Kazuo Kobayashi

4 Circulation of the Kachchhi Bhatiya in the 19th Century: Towards the Indian Ocean World History

Hideaki Suzuki

PART II

Hinterland Connections

5 Ports, Markets, Commercial Networks, and Politics: Case of Tal (South) Konkan in the 17th Century

Neelambari Jagtap

6 Hinterland Connections in 18th-Century North Konkan: Secondary Ports, Coastal Connections, and Internal Markets

Sumitra Kulkarni

7 Inland Trade Networks under the Marathas in the 18th–19th Century: With Special Reference to Indāpūr Pargaṇā in Puṇe Subhā

Michihiro Ogawa

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