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Trading Firms in Colonial India

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The aim of this article is to develop a general narrative of the firms that led the growth of trade in nineteenth-century India, and thus to supply a missing piece in modern Indian business history. The trading firms had several features in common with trading firms globally, especially, a high degree of mobility, institutional adaptation, and occasionally, diversification into banking and manufacturing. But certain aspects of the process were specific to the regions where they operated, such as differences between the ports and the interior trading orders, between cities, and between expatriate and indigenous firms. The article reconsiders these features.

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  • Roy, Tirthankar, 2014. "Trading Firms in Colonial India," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 88(1), pages 9-42, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:buhirw:v:88:y:2014:i:01:p:9-42_00
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    1. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata, 2021. "Linguistic Distance and Market Integration in India," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 81(1), pages 1-39, March.
    2. Aldous, Michael & Roy, Tirthankar, 2018. "Reassessing FERA: examining British firms’ strategic responses to ‘Indianisation’," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 89975, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    3. Ilgaz Arikan & Oded Shenkar, 2022. "Neglected elements: What we should cover more of in international business research," Journal of International Business Studies, Palgrave Macmillan;Academy of International Business, vol. 53(7), pages 1484-1507, September.
    4. Milan Balaban & Jan Herman & Dalibor Savic´, 2021. "The early decades of the Bata Shoe Company in India: From establishment to economic and social integration," The Indian Economic & Social History Review, , vol. 58(3), pages 297-332, July.

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