About the Book: Dutch East India Company and the Economy ofBengal 1630-1720
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 1700s,
Bengal provided almost40 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 1630suntil about1720.