The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930

A Global Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-90-04-31154-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 246 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused periods of boom and slump in the industry. Using the commodity chains conceptual framework he examines the stages in the trajectory of indigo from production to consumption.

Nadri shows convincingly that the growth or decline in indigo production and trade in India was a part of the global processes of production, trade, and consumption and that indigo as a global commodity was embedded in the politics of empire and colonial expansion.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Nadri, Ghulam A

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Außenhandel
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Geschichte der VWL
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Internationaler Handel
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Foreword. vii
Acknowledgements. x
List of Illustrations. xii
List of Abbreviations and Short Titles. xiv
Currency, Weights, and Measures. xvi
Glossary. xvii

Introduction. 1

1 The Making of Indigo: Cultivation and Manufacture. 12
2 From Manufactory to Market: Logistics and Commerce. 61
3 The Indigo Trade: Local and Global Demand. 85
4 The Making of the World Market: Indigo Commodity Chains. 124
5 The Political Economy of Indigo: States, Merchants, and Producers. 154

Conclusions. 192

Appendices
1 Annual Volumes (in Dutch pounds) and Values (in guilders) of the voc’s Indigo Exports from Surat, 1619–1742. 197
2 Quantities and Values of Annual Indigo Sales by the voc, 1642–1765. 200
3 Indigo Sale Prices (stivers/pound) in Amsterdam, 1695–1760. 206
4 Quantities (in lb.) of Indigo Exported by the eic from Surat/Bombay, 1615–1729. 208
5 Values (in rupees) of Annual Indigo Exports from India, 1795/96–1933/34. 211
6 Quantities (in Dutch pounds) and Values (in guilders) of voc’s Exports of Java Indigo to the Dutch Republic, 1704–1781. 216
7 Values (in guilder) and Volumes (in kilogram) of Indigo Exports from Java, 1824–1873. 217
8 Indigo Prices (rupees per man and stivers per Dutch pound) in India, 1609–1757. 219
9 Indigo Prices in Calcutta (rupees/factory man) and London (pence/lb.), 1843–1921. 221

Bibliography. 223
Index. 240

Über Autor(innen)

Ghulam A. Nadri, PhD (2007), Leiden University, is Associate Professor of History at Georgia State University. He has published a monograph Eighteenth-Century Gujarat: The Dynamics of Its Political Economy, 1750-1800 (Brill, 2009) and many journal articles and book chapters on early modern Gujarat and India.