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1. Indian Railways:-The railways brought modernity to India. Its vast network connected the far coners of the subcontinent, making travel, commuication and commerce simpler than ever before.
2. The Science of Wealth:-This book is a definitive introducation to the classic text, the Arthashastra, The world first manual on political ecomomy.
3. The world of the Tamil Merchant: The talk of the Tamil merechant is a fascinating story of the adventure of commerece in the ancient and early medieval periods in India.
4. The mouse Merchant:- Even in ancient6 india, money is always a good thing and everyone wants it. The stories in The Mouse merchant selected from the Sanskrit universe. from the period of the late Rig Veda to the twelfth.
5. The East India Company:-For over 200 years, the East India Company was the largest and most powerful mercantile firm in Britain and Asia. Set up to procure Asian goods for British consumers, the Company's business network spanned Persia, India, China, Indonesia, and North America. In the late 1700s, its career took a dramatic turn as the Company lost ground as a trading firm, but founded an empire in India. Why did a merchant firm end up being an empire builder? Why did politics mesh so closely with the conduct of business in this time?
6. Caravans:-Caravans tells the fascinating story of countless Punjabi Khatri merchants who built great business empires through their ingenuity and spirit of adventure. Operating during the sixteenth through the nineteenth centuries, these merchants risked everything and travelled across Afghanistan, Central Asia, Iran and Russia. They used sophisticated techniques to convert a modest amount of merchandise into vast portfolios for trade and moneylending ventures.
7. Globalization Before Its Time:-How did the Kachchhi traders build on the Gujarat Advantage?
In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, during the dying days of the Mughal empire, merchants from Kachchh established a flourishing overseas trade. Building on a rich legacy of free trade in pre-modern times between the many ports of Gujarat and the Middle East, the Kachchhis dealt in pearls, dates, spices and ivory with the faraway lands of Muscat and Zanzibar.
8. Three Merchants of Bombay:-Three Merchants of Bombay is the story of three intrepid merchants who traded out of Bombay in the nineteenth century—Tarwady Arjunjee, Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy and Premchand Roychand—founding pioneering business empires based on trade in cotton and opium. Set against the backdrop of global and local economies undergoing rapid and unforeseen change, these stories stand as a microcosm for the history of indigenous capitalism in western India.
9. The Marwaris:-In the nineteenth century, a tiny community from the deserts of Rajasthan spread out to every corner of India. The Marwaris controlled much of the country’s inland trade by the time of the First World War. They then turned their hand to industry and, by the 1970s, owned most of India’s private industrial assets. Today, Marwari businessmen account for a quarter of the Indian names on the Forbes billionaires list.// What makes the Marwaris so successful? Is it their indomitable enterprise, or their incredible appetite for risk? In this new book, Thomas Timberg shows how the Marwaris rely on a centuries-old system for conserving and growing capital which has stood them in good stead, alongside a strong sense of business ethics which has earned them respect.// Family businesses in general and the Marwaris in particular might have a vital role to play in shaping India’s economic future.
10. Goras and Desis:-‘An insightful view on the origin and evolution of Indian corporates’ – N.R. Narayana Murthy
The story of corporate India is linked to managing agencies, an organizational form dominant in the subcontinent from 1875 until its abolition in 1970 that allowed entrepreneurs to promote diverse companies while exercising disproportionate control over cash flows. This is the definitive economic history of Indian companies through the lens of managing agencies, whether controlled by goras or desis.
1. Indian Railways:-The railways brought modernity to India. Its vast network connected the far coners of the subcontinent, making travel, commuication and commerce simpler than ever before.2. The Science of Wealth:-This book is a definitive introducation to the classic text, the Arthashastra, The world first manual on political ecomomy.3. The world of the Tamil Merchant: The talk of the Tamil merechant is a fascinating story of the adventure of commerece in the ancient and early medieval periods in India.4. The mouse Merchant:- Even in ancient6 india, money is always a good thing and everyone wants it. The stories in The... Read More