Colonial History
The Dutch East India Company [Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie]
The British Library Dutch—Flemish Section (contact: J. Harskamp) (no date) http://www.bl.uk/ collections/westeuropean/dutbib.pdf
The Dutch in Malabar. [Selections from the records of the Madras government]. With introduction and notes by A. Galletti ... [et al] [Madras] 1984.
Arasaratnam S. (1986) Merchants, companies and commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650-1740. Oxford University Press, New Delhi, India.
The Coromandel Coast, unlike its counterpart Malabar, is open. To relate to the rise and fall of port cities like Pulicat and Masulipatnam, they need to be linked to Vijayanagar and Golconda. In the power of Europe within the Indian structure, the Coromandel Coast was different from that of Gujarat, but possibly behind that of Bengal. The author places the coast firmly in the world of the Indian Ocean.
Ramerini M. (2006) Dutch–Portuguese colonial history: The Dutch East India Company [VOC: Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie]. http://www.colonialvoyage.com/vocd.html
In March 1594 some Dutch merchants founded a ‘Company of Far Lands’ in Amsterdam, their objective being to send two fleets to East Indies. The first fleet of four ships reached Bantam in Java. Only three ships returned to the Netherlands in August 1597, with a small cargo of pepper, but it more than covered the cost of the expedition. Following the steps of this first enterprise, five different companies (voorcompagniën) were founded in 1598, and 22 ships left Dutch ports for the East Indies. In 1601, 65 ships left for the East Indies.
National Library of Australia (1991) http://www.nla.gov. au/asian/indo/nedbib.html.
A select bibliography based on the collections of the National Library of Australia, starting from the time of Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (VOC).
Dijk W.O. (2003) The archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as they relate to Burma. SOAS Bulletin of Burma Research 1 (1), Spring 2003, ISSN 1479–8484. http://web.soas.ac.uk/burma/archive%20report%201.1.PDF
The archives of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) are preserved largely in the National Archives at The Hague (previously the Algemeen Rijksarchief/General State Archives). Though the information contained within this vast collection of records and accounts forms an invaluable source for the reconstruction of the (economic) history of 17th century Burma, they have never been examined. This is indeed surprising, since practically everything written between 1634 and 1680 by usually well informed VOC employees in Burma is still extant making this a major primary source for just such a purpose.
General
Hodgetts J-B (2008) Madras matters: At home in South India. Lulu.com (no publisher address available) ISBN: 978-1-4357-0887-7.
Refers to the discovery of Madras since 2000, and its past. An important, fast-growing metropolis, now called Chennai, growing from the end of the colonial period in 1947. Written as a series of blogs from five years of personal experience by a TV and film professional, freelance journalist, who previously lived and worked in Paris. The book describes a peaceful southern neighbourhood with Internet shops, good food stores, and a great beach, the daily lives of residents, and the famous Indian marriages. In 18th Century, Madras was very important to Europe as the central point of the Southern ‘Deccan’. In modern times the world comes to Madras to sign IT contracts.
Trade History
Shimada R. (2006) The intra-Asian trade in Japanese copper by the Dutch East India Company during the Eighteenth Century. Brill, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Shimada argues that the trade in Japanese copper reaped high profits. Despite the huge imports of British copper by the English East India Company during the 18th Century, the Dutch Company successfully continued to sell Japanese copper in South Asia at higher prices. Compared to the capital-intensive development of British mines in the age of the Industrial Revolution, the copper production in Tokugawa, Japan, was characterised by a labour-intensive ‘revolution’ which also made a big impact on the local economy. Between 1700 and 1724, the Dutch East India Company sold Japanese copper on the southern Coromandel at Nagapattinam, Porto Novo, Sadras, Pulicat, and Kunimedu.
Social History
Lewandowski S. (1980) Migration and ethnicity in urban India: Kerala migrants in the city of Madras 1870-1970. Manohar, New Delhi, India.
The author traces the historical process of migration within one linguistic community residing in an Indian city (Madras) located in a different cultural region and attempts to relate this process to the emergence of an ethnic identity. The characteristics of the growth of Madras over time are also examined, and the impact of migration to the city on the lives of the migrants is analysed by comparing their lives before and after the move. Data for the study are from a variety of local sources obtained around 1970.
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