The Coromandel Coast: Madras (Chennai), A Case Study

 

Resources

Project research was conducted at the Van Pelt Library, University of Pennsylvania, which holds one of the richest South Asian collections in the United States.

General

Bhargava, Moti Lal, Indian Ocean Strategies Through the Ages, with Rare and Antique Maps (New Delhi, 1990).

Bose, Sugata,and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (London, 1998).

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_____ , Asia Before Europe. Economy and Civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (Cambridge, 1990).

_____ , K. N., ed., The Economic Development of India under the East India Company 1814-58: A Selection of Contemporary Writings (Cambridge, 1971).

Das Gupta, Ashin and M. N. Pearson, India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800 (Calcutta, 1987).

Hourani, G. F., Arab Seafaring in the Indian Ocean in Ancient and Early Medieval Times (Princeton, 1951).

Louis, Wm. Roger, editor-in-chief, The Oxford History of the British Empire, 5 vols. (Oxford, 1998-1999).

McPherson, Kenneth, The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea (Delhi, 1993)

The Periplus maris Erythraei: text with introduction, translation, and commentary by Lionel Casson (Princeton, N.J., 1989).

Ray, Himanshu Prabha, H. P., The Winds of Change : Buddhism and the Maritime Links of Early South Asia (Delhi, 1994).

Raychaudhuri, Tapan and Irfan Habib, The Cambridge Economic History of India, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1982- )

Singh, Ajoy Kumar, Indo-Roman Trade (New Delhi, 1988).

Madras

Art in Industry Through the Ages: Monograph series on Madras Presidency, Southern India. (New Dehli, 1982).

Baliga, B. S. 2 vols. Studies in Madras Administration (Madras, 1949, revised 1960).

Bhogendranath, N. C., Development of the Textile Industry in Madras (up to 1950) (Madras, 1957).

Kalpana, K. and Frank Schiffer, Madras: The Architectural Heritage (Chennai, 2003).

Krishnaswami Nayudu, W. S., Old Madras (Madras, 1965).

Krishnaswamy, S., The role of Madras Legislature in the Freedom Struggle, 1861-1947 (New Delhi, 1989)

Madras Tercentenary Celebration Committee. The Madras Tercentenary Commemoration Volume (Delhi, 1994).

Manual of the Administration of the Madras Presidency, 3 vols. (Madras, 1885).

Mukherjee, Nilmani, The Ryotwari System in Madras, 1792-1827 (Calcutta, 1962).

Muthiah, S., Madras Rediscovered: A Historical Guide to Looking Around, supplemented with tales of 'Once upon a City' (Chennai, 1999).

Official Papers Concerning the Construction of the Madras Harbour (Madras, 1902).

Ramasamy, Ayyasamy, History of Pondicherry (New Delhi, 1987).

Ramaswami, N. S., The Founding of Madras (Madras, 1977).

Rajaraman, P., Chennai Through the Ages (Chennai,1997).

Tirumalai, R., The Voice of Enterprise: 150 Years of the Madras Chamber of Commerce & Industry (Bangalore, 1986).

Maritime History

Arasaratnam, Sinnappah, Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650-1740 (Delhi, 1986)

Banga, Indu, ed., Ports and Their Hinterlands in India, 1700-1950 (New Delhi, 1992).

Broeze, Frank, ed., Brides of the Sea: Port Cities of Asia from the 16th-20th Centuries (Kensington, NSW, 1989).

_____ , Gateways of Asia : Port Cities of Asia in the 13th-20th Centuries (London, 1997).

Dossal, Marian, "Indian Maritime Historiography: West Coast Merchants in a Globalizing Economy" in Maritime History at the Crossroads: A Critical Review of Recent Historiography, edited by Frank Broeze (St. John's, Nfld., 1995).

Mukund, Kanakalatha, The Trading World of the Tamil merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel (Chennai, 1999)

Prakash, Om, and Denys Lombard, ed., Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1800 (New Delhi, 1999).

Ptak, Roderich, and Dietmar Rothermund, eds., Emporia, Commodities, and Entrepreneurs in Asian maritime trade, C. 1400-1750 (Stuttgart, 1991). See, Arasaratham, S., "Merchants of Coromandel in Trade and Entrepreneurship circa 1650-1700," (37-51).

Stephen, S. Jeyaseela, The Coromandel Coast and Its Hinterland: Economy, Society, and Political System, A.D. 1500-1600 (Delhi, 1997).

_____ , Portuguese in the Tamil Coast: Historical Explorations in Commerce and Culture, 1507-1749 (Pondicherry, 1998)

Tracy, James D., ed., The Rise of Merchant Empires: Long-distance trade in the Early Modern World, 1350-1750 (Cambridge, 1990).

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