TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pinto, Celsa, 
AU  -  Pinto, Celsa, 
TI  - Trade and finance in Portuguese India : : a study of the Portuguese country trade, 1770-1840
T2  - XCHR studies series, no. 5
SN  - 8170225078
U1  - 380.095 PIN 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - : Concept Pub. Co., 
KW  - Commerce, communications, & transportation
KW  - Asia -- Commerce -- India -- Goa, Daman and Diu -- History
KW  - Finance -- India -- Goa, Daman and Diu -- History
KW  - Finance
KW  - Geschichte 1770-1840
KW  - Africa
KW  - Goa, Damān et Diu (Inde) -- Commerce -- Asie -- Histoire
KW  - Commerce
N1  - 	1. Setting the scene --
2. Merchants : social identities and business strategies --
3. The state : towards a new pragmatism --
4. Portugal : animation attempts --
5. Big trade : high on opium --
6. Big trade : draining Africa of people, ivory and gold --
7. Small trade : essential ingredients, textiles, tobacco and timber --
8. Small trade : networking the 'trifling', victuals and spices --
9. Some conclusions
N2  - This work marks a sharp departure from the predominant Eurocentric emphasis in Indo Portuguese studies, on the sixteenth century Portuguese trade in the Carreira da India. Such an approach unjustly dismisses the subsequent centuries as periods of no commercial consequence to the Estado da India and Portugal and relegates to an un important level the significance of the privately operated intra Asian trade. The evidence gathered and their argument of this book challenges such prevailing stereo types. Based on a wide range on archival sources in India, Portugal and England, this study unravels the existence of a thriving native operated country trade, in 'the splendid' and 'the trifling' that emanated from Portuguese India in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It not only took advantage of the vulnerability displayed and the animation efforts undertaken by the Estado da India and the metropolis but also learned to function through 'crevices' under the growing British hegemony
ER  -