IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-349-12538-8_2.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

The Historical Background, c. 1840–1939

In: Merchants of the Raj

Author

Listed:
  • Stephanie Jones

Abstract

The period from the origins of the major managing-agency houses to the eve of the Second World War saw their emergence, expansion, and the beginning of their decline. They established their businesses in trading and agency work, handling such imports as piece-goods and such exports as indigo, and grew to prominence on the back of the major commodities of tea, jute and coal, supplying goods and services to the producing and manufacturing companies concerned. In this way, they helped to stimulate the creation of much of India’s economic infrastructure, managing shipping, railways and electricity companies. Many of the managing-agency houses developed branches outside Calcutta, in other outposts of the mercantile Raj.

Suggested Citation

  • Stephanie Jones, 1992. "The Historical Background, c. 1840–1939," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Merchants of the Raj, chapter 1, pages 5-77, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12538-8_2
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-12538-8_2
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-12538-8_2. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.