...M. N. Pearson The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel . By Kanakalatha Mukund . Hyderabad : Orient Longman , 1999 . xiv, 206 pp. £15.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Walter C. Neale Jan Company in Coromandel, 1605–1690 . By Rapan Raychaudhuri . ' S-Gravenhage : Martinus Nijhoff , 1962 . x , 230 . Appendices, Maps. Guilders 18. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1964 1964 318 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES under the raised slats...

...A. Das Gupta Merchants, Companies, and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650–1740 . By Sinnappah Arasaratnam . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1986 . 407 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 415 The book catalogs...

...David West Rudner Abstracts Most accounts of South Indian commerce in the seventeenth century depend on European documents and focus on Indo-European trade along the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. This article makes use of indigenous documents to analyze the way a caste of itinerant salt traders...

... or seeking case studies from which to construct their own more comparative assessments of urbanization in nineteenth-century British India. HOWARD SPODEK Temple University Merchants, Companies, and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650-1740. By SINNAPPAH ARASARATNAM. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1986...

... This book is an advance on Moreland and Raychaudhuri in that Arasaratnam definitively establishes a substantial growth of Coromandel's trade in the later seventeenth century, the peak coming possibly around the middle years when the coastal links worked effectively both with the western Indian Ocean...

... HOGBIN. New York; Hu- manities Press, 1963. 177. Plates, Maps. Jan Company in Coromandel, 1605-1690. By $7.00. RAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI. 'S-Gravenhage: Hogbin has previously presented data on many aspects of the village of Busama, which Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. x, 230. Appendices, Maps. Guilders 18.- lies...

... Lanka, and chapter 6 from Nellore to Chittagong. In the final chapter, Arasaratnam asks, "What justification is there for dividing the area into four zones: Gujarat, Malabar-Kanara, Coromandel and Bengal?" (p. 266). He answers his own question on the same page by asserting that he sees Gujarat looking...

... tantalizing information to fuel a great deal of future scholarship. CATHERINE B. ASHER University of Minnesota The Trading World of the Tamil Merchant: Evolution of Merchant Capitalism in the Coromandel. By KANAKALATHA M U K U N D . Hyderabad: Orient Longman, 1999- xiv, 206 pp. £15.95 (cloth). Works on trade...

... in Coromandel, 1605-1690. By $7.00. RAPAN RAYCHAUDHURI. 'S-Gravenhage: Hogbin has previously presented data on many aspects of the village of Busama, which Martinus Nijhoff, 1962. x, 230. Appendices, Maps. Guilders 18.- lies on the coast of Huon gulf in eastern New Dr. Raychaudhuri's book is a readable...

..., Coromandel and Bengal?" (p. 266). He answers his own question on the same page by asserting that he sees Gujarat looking "westwards and southwards along the coast, with the western India/Persian Gulf/Southern Arabia/Red Sea commercial nexus emerging as the single most powerful commercial system of the Indian...

... consensus about rank; in its villages there is the most complete manifestation of the four structural features. The Coromandel area (defined for convenience of analysis as the twelve districts between Tinnevelly and Nellore) is next in degree of rank elaboration; in its villages there is more disagreement...

... scholarship on Dutch activities in India. First, he retains his references to T. Raychaudhuri's thesis, "The Dutch in Coromandel, 16051690," even though they do not agree with the pagination in the more accessible revised version published in 1962. Secondly, he fails to mention J. van Lohuizen's study...

... of the thirteenth-century Delhi sultanate is given an entirely fresh perspective, including an invaluable topographical prosopography. In chapter 8, '"Twixt Land and Sea," the focus moves to the maritime littoral, to Gujarat, Konkan, Malabar, Coromandel, and Bengal, as well as to the Maldive and Laccadive islands...

... depend on European documents and focus on Indo-European trade along the Malabar and Coromandel coasts. This article makes use of indigenous documents to analyze the way a caste of itinerant salt traders, the Nakarattars, combined worship and commerce in the interior of Tamil-speaking South India...

... of production in Bengal and Coromandel and encouraged raw-material production elsewhere in the subcontinent. Indian Ocean traders and producers bent their impressive energies, organizational skills, and capital to meet these new demands. Rulers and ministers encouraged trade and production to benefit from new...

... cannot help but wonder whimsically if Ray's views on the Roman commercial presence in the Indian Ocean would be radically different had she, rather than Wheeler, excavated Arikamedu (which Wheeler called an "Indo-Roman trading-station") on the Coromandel Coast near Pondicherry. My gut feeling is that one...

... in Coromandel, 16051690," even though they do not agree with the pagination in the more accessible revised version published in 1962. Secondly, he fails to mention J. van Lohuizen's study, The Dutch East India Company and Mysore, published in 1961, which has helpful information on the Dutch activities...

... by the government. written, Jan Company in Coromandel should Thus, in India, it is not possible for the rank well. I learned much from it. government to leave alone, in the name of WALTER C. NEALE secularism, so dominant a force as religion. It University of Texas is this aspect of the fundamental difference...

... in Bengal, and the declining influence of the Danish administrative headquarters at Tranquebar on the Coromandel coast. Dr. Feldbaek also shows that greater involvement with British sea-captains, "country traders," and East India Company servants by no means meant stability either for the Danish Company...