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About the Book: Dutch East India Company and the Economy ofBengal 163-172 Om Prakash reveals the central role played by Bengal in theDutchEast India Company's activities in India in the seventeenthandearly eighteenth century and the resulting integration of Indiaintothe world economy. By the early 17s, Bengal provided almost4 percent of value of Asian goods sent to Holland, and over halfof alltextiles exported from Asia by the Company. Long beforethis, theCompany had carried goods from Bengal all over Asia.Drawing onlittle-used documents in the General State Archives inThe Hague,the author discusses the place of the Company in Bengalfrom thebeginnings of its trading operations there in the 163suntil about172. \n
Professor Om Prakash retired recently as Professor of Economic History at the Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. He is a foreign fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Amsterdam and of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences, Haarlem, The Netherlands. His major publications include The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 163-172 (Princeton 1985), European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India, Vol. II. 5 in the New Cambridge History of India series (Cambridge 1998) and Bullion for Goods, European and Indian Merchants in the Indian Ocean Trade, 15-18 (Delhi, 24).
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