The political economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930 : : a global perspective / / by Ghulam A. Nadri.

• Superior document: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, Volume 22
• VerfasserIn: Nadri, Ghulam A.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European expansion and indigenous response ; Volume 22.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (264 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In The Political Economy of Indigo in India, 1580-1930: A Global Perspective Ghulam A. Nadri explores the dynamics of the indigo industry and trade from a long-term perspective and examines the local and global forces that affected the potentialities of production in India and elsewhere and caused periods of boom and slump in the industry. Using the commodity chains conceptual framework he examines the stages in the trajectory of indigo from production to consumption. Nadri shows convincingly that the growth or decline in indigo production and trade in India was a part of the global processes of production, trade, and consumption and that indigo as a global commodity was embedded in the politics of empire and colonial expansion.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- The Making of Indigo: Cultivation and Manufacture -- From Manufactory to Market: Logistics and Commerce -- The Indigo Trade: Local and Global Demand -- The Making of the World Market: Indigo Commodity Chains -- The Political Economy of Indigo: States, Merchants, and Producers -- Conclusions -- Annual Volumes (in Dutch pounds) and Values (in guilders) of the voc’s Indigo Exports from Surat, 1619–1742 -- Quantities and Values of Annual Indigo Sales by the voc, 1642–1765 -- Indigo Sale Prices (stivers/pound) in Amsterdam, 1695–1760 -- Quantities (in lb.) of Indigo Exported by the eic from Surat/Bombay, 1615–1729 -- Values (in rupees) of Annual Indigo Exports from India, 1795/96–1933/34 -- Quantities (in Dutch pounds) and Values (in guilders) of voc’s Exports of Java Indigo to the Dutch Republic, 1704–1781 -- Values (in guilder) and Volumes (in kilogram) of Indigo Exports from Java, 1824–1873 -- Indigo Prices (rupees per man and stivers per Dutch pound) in India, 1609–1757 -- Indigo Prices in Calcutta (rupees/factory man) and London (pence/lb.), 1843–1921 -- Bibliography -- Index.