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Coromandel revisited: problems and issues in Indian maritime history

About a dozen reviews have appeared of my Merchants, Companies and Commerce on the Coromandel Coast, 1650-1740, Oxford University Press: New Delhi, 1986, since its publication. In these reviews, a number of scholars have raised important questions relating to the process of trade and traffic in the Coromandel coast in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, some of which have a broader reference to the understanding of the maritime history of India and the Indian Ocean. Within a year of the publication of Merchants, Companies ..., Ashin Dasgupta and M.N. Pearson edited, India and the Indian Ocean 1500-1800, was published by Oxford University Press: Calcutta, with a number of overlapping themes and common issues and this opened up ongoing debate and discussion. Most of the reviewers have responded positively to the aims and the chosen framework in the writing of Merchants, Companies ... and it is satisfying