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Article: The Merchant-Warrior Pacified: The VOC (The Dutch East India Co.) and Its Changing Political Economy in India.
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- Business History
- Article date:
- July 1, 1996
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This slim volume, amounting to only 150 pages of text, has its origins in three Henry Heras Memorial Lectures delivered by George Winius at the University of Leiden in 1988. Nevertheless, the authors have much to say, providing readers with a reasonably comprehensive if at times broad-brush treatment of the rise and fall of the VOC's trading empire on the Indian subcontinent between 1600 and 1795.
The first 80 years of the company are characterised by the authors as 'The Monopolistic Phase'. During this period the VOC established a series of factories and forts on the Coromandel coast, combining the use of force and the purchase of privileges from local rulers to ...