Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800 Bullion for Goods: European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 1500-1800 by Om Prakash ISBN - 9788173045387 Cover - HardBound Publication Year - 2025 Pages - 426p. Price - INR 1895.00 The spectacular rise in world trade following the great discoveries of the closing years of the fifteenth century had important implications for each of the major segments of the newly emerging early modern international economy. As far as Asia was concerned, the commercial operations of the European corporate enterprises as well as private traders in the Indian Ocean region between the sixteenth and the eighteenth centuries had far reaching consequences for the economies and the polities of the countries of the region. Asian merchants engaged in the Indian Ocean trade inter­acted with the European intruders into the Ocean in a variety of ways. The twenty-one essays included in this volume are firmly embedded in original archival sources. They deal mainly with issues arising out of the Europeans' commercial presence in the Indian Ocean region and the interaction they had with their Asian counterparts. This volume discusses how over a span of three centuries, the Indian economy was integrated into the world economy as a result of these interactions. The macroeconomic implications of the European encounter for the Indian economy are analysed in detail. Another important area explored at some length is the monetary history of the subcontinent in the early modern period. This collection of essays will be of interest to the historians of India, and of the Indian Ocean alike. It will also have a great deal of appeal for the historians of early modern Asia, as well as Europe. Those interested in what is being increasingly described as world history will also find the volume useful. About the Author Om Prakash is the former Professor of Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. His publications include The Dutch Factories in India 1617-1623 (Delhi, 1984); The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal 1630-1720 (Princeton, 1985); Precious Metals and Commerce, The Dutch East India Company in the Indian Ocean Trade (Variorum, 1994); European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India, Vol. II.5 in the New Cambridge History of India series (Cambridge, 1998). He has also edited European Commercial Expansion in Early Modern Asia (Variorum, 1997); and co-edited with Denys Lombard Commerce and Culture in the Bay of Bengal, 1500-1800 (Delhi, 1999); and with Jos Gommans Circumambulations in South Asian History, Essays in Honour of Dirk H.A. Kolff (Leiden, 2003).