Series Editor's Foreword -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Notes on weights and currency -- Maps -- Introduction -- Euro-Asian context -- South Asian context -- Regional context -- Sources -- Chapter One: State and Political Power -- Mughal rule in Gujarat and the rise of Surat -- From the Mughals to the Marathas -- The English political ascendancy in Gujarat -- Local hereditary chiefs -- Conclusion -- Chapter Two: Market Economy, Labour, and Wages -- Surat's textile industry -- Caste, labour, and inter-professional mobility -- Weavers, merchants and the English East India Company -- Labour market -- Carpenters and bricklayers -- Maritime proletariat: the sailors -- Organisation of the labour market and methods of recruitment -- Wages and remuneration -- Local navies and the maritime proletariat -- Service sector -- Conclusion -- Chapter Three: Asian Merchants of Gujarat and Indian Ocean Trade -- Merchant communities: family, diaspora, and network -- Some prominent merchants and shipowners of Surat -- Petty shipowners and freighters -- Institutional dynamics of trade -- The network: agents and intermediary merchants -- Financial intermediation -- Commercial intermediation: brokers -- Merchants and the eighteenth-century political economy -- Conclusion -- Chapter Four: Gujarat in Asian and Euro-Asian Trade: The Dutch East India Company -- The VOC's response to the early-eighteenth-century crisis -- Disposal of imports: the VOC and its brokers -- The VOC's imports into Gujarat -- Fine spices: cloves and nutmeg -- Pepper -- Copper -- Sugar -- The VOC's exports from Gujarat -- Methods of procurement: the VOC and its 'leveranciers' -- European competition: growing challenges and the VOC's response -- Conclusion -- Chapter Five: The Gujarat Economy: Potentiality and Performance -- Mid-century economic recovery.

Scale of demand and supply -- Agricultural production: food grain and commercial crops -- Cotton prices -- Who benefited from economic growth? -- Imports and consumption -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendices -- 1. Farming of the English share of the customs revenue of Bhavanagar and Mowah -- 2. Labour wages at Surat -- 3. The family tree of three merchants of Surat -- 4. Annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits at Surat, 1711-1793 -- 5. Annual imports and sales of cloves and nutmeg by the VOC at Surat, 1702-1791 -- 6. Annual imports and sales of pepper by the VOC at Surat, 1702-1792 -- 7. Annual imports and sales of copper by the VOC at Surat, 1702-1791 -- 8. Annual imports and sales of sugar by the VOC at Surat, 1702-1792 -- 9. Purchase and sale prices, 1707-1792 -- 10. Annual values of the VOC's exports from Surat, 1751-1792 -- 11. Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's exports from Surat, 1672-1792 -- 12. Average cotton prices at Surat -- Bibliography -- Index -- List of Maps -- 1. The Indian Ocean -- 2. Mughal Gujarat -- List of Tables -- 2.1 Muslim sailors of Surat recruited by the VOC -- 4.1 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales and profits at Surat, 1711-1793 -- 5.1 The English East India Company's procurement of Gujarat textiles -- List of Figures -- 4.1 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits at Surat, 1711-1793 -- 4.2 Changes in the average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits, 1711-1793 -- 4.3 Five-yearly average annual imports of cloves and nutmeg into Surat by the VOC, 1711-1791 -- 4.4 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits on cloves at Surat, 1711-1791 -- 4.5 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits on nutmeg at Surat, 1711-1791.

4.6 Changes in the average annual values of the VOC's pepper trade at Surat, 1702-1751 -- 4.7 Five-yearly average annual volumes of copper sold by the VOC at Surat, 1702-1792 -- 4.8 Changes in the average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits on copper at Surat, 1702-1791 -- 4.9 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits on copper at Surat, 1711-1792 -- 4.10 Five-yearly average annual volumes of sugar sold by the VOC at Surat, 1702-1792 -- 4.11 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's imports, sales, and profits on sugar at Surat, 1702-1792 -- 4.12 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's exports from Gujarat, 1751-1792 -- 4.13 Five-yearly average annual values of the VOC's exports from Gujarat, 1672-1792 -- 4.14 Changes in the average annual values of the VOC's exports (excluding cash) from Gujarat, 1672-1792 -- 5.1 Five-yearly average annual cotton prices, 1747-1799.