Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World

Radhika Seshan is former Head and retired Professor in the Department of History, Savitribai Phule Pune University, India 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 in the Department of Asian History, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, The University of Tokyo, Japan. 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 English on aspects of the networks of the Indian Ocean world in the early modern age.

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Introduction

Radhika Seshan and Ryuto Shimada

Part 1: India and Japan






Trade and Culture in the 17th Century: The Japanese traveller Tenjiku Tokubei’s Idea of India
Ruby Maloni




Textiles in the Pre-modern Economies of India and Japan-a comparative study
Ishrat Alam




Gold Trade between Japan and India by the Dutch East India Company
Ryuto Shimada




Surat and Nagasaki: A comparison of two international port cities in the 17th century Hiromu Nagashima
Part 2: Merchants and Trading Networks




Road and Security between Agra and Surat during the 17th and Early 18th Centuries Shinsaku Kato



Merchants of the Coromandel Coast in the 17th Century: From Masulipatnam to Fort St. David
Radhika Seshan




Trade of Adil Shahi Sultanate of Bijapur in the Indian Ocean (1489-1686)

Kiran Jadhav

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