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The English East India Company`s Silk Enterprise – Economy, Empire and Business: 16 (Worlds of the East India Company)

SKU: 9781783273942

9,440.00

Explore the pivotal role of the East India Company’s silk manufacturing in Bengal. This crucial economic history reveals the EIC as a major silk producer, investing heavily to supply British weavers and facilitating the first significant transfer of silk technology from West to East. Understand the complex interplay of business, empire, and colonial policies that shaped this enterprise and its lasting impact on the Indian economy. Essential for anyone interested in India’s industrial past and the British Raj’s economic legacy.

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