Trade and Trading Items of Colonial Bengal: A survey of Imported and Exported Trade Items (1602-1757 A.D.)
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2016-03
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Karatoya : North Bengal University journal of History
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Sarkar, Bijoy kumar
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University of North Bengal
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Lama, S., & Mandal, P. (2016). Trade and Trading Items of Colonial Bengal: A survey of Imported and Exported Trade Items (1602-1757 A.D.). Karatoya : North Bengal University Journal of History, 9, 153–164. https://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/3885
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Lama, Sudash
Mandal, Prodip
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A region as geographical units is a historical construction whose boundary is
defined and redefined by the contemporary political and culture condition. Our
delineation of region depends on our perspective on the history. It is to be noted that,
during the seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century, we know that the
geographical limits of subha was often the exceeded area now presently covered by East
Bengal or Bengladesh and the Indian state West Bengal. And also we noted that, during
the contemporary time period, a flourishing textile industry, urbanization and trade with
the western Gangetic plains, and also Indo- European maritime trade. We see that
seventeenth and first half of the eighteenth century, Company established trade relations
with Bengal only after it had been operating elsewhere in the subcontinent for a period of
nearly three decades. But once a beginning had been made, the growth of the Company 's
trade in the region was remarkable rapid. During the latter half of the seventeenth
century, the Bengal trade played a crucial role in the Company's intra-Asian trade.
Similarly, at a slightly later date, opium procured in Bihar accounted for a substantial
proportion of the total Dutch imports into the Indonesian archipelago. Toward the close
of the seventeenth century, as the composition of the exports to Europe underwent a
drastic change in favors of textiles and silks manufactured in Bengal and elsewhere, the
trade from this region assumed an altogether new significance. This paper we attempt to
show about import and export trade items of Bengal from 1602 to 1757 A.D.
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9
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2229-4880
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153 - 164