Searching for the Indian in the English East India Company Archives : The Case of Jadow the Broker and Early Seventeenth-Century Anglo-Mughal Trade

The East India Company, one of the earliest joint-stock enterprises, helped revolutionize English economic structures. Although recent years have seen a surge of interest in its early history, the native traders and translators who formed the front lines of the East India Company’s operations — acqu...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. - University of Pennsylvania Press. - 17(2017), 3, Seite 37-58
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2017
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies
Schlagworte:East India Company Mughal India India Economic History colonial encounter colonial exchange
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