The Trading world of Asia and the East India Company 1660-1760 by Kirti N Chaudhuri.
Cambridge University Press 1978
A masterpiece of economic analysis

Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750 by Kirti N Chaudhuri
Cambridge University Press 1985
Offers a wide-ranging vision of the world the Europeans entered.

East Indian fortunes: the British in Bengal in the eighteenth century by Peter J Marshall
Oxford Clarendon Press 1976
Essential reading for understanding the impact of the new money.

Asia in the making of Europe by Donald F Lach and Edwin J Van Kley
Chicago and London; University of Chicago Press. In 9 volumes 1965-1993

Web

British Library resources

www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecords/indiaofficerecordsfurtherreadingontheeastindiacompanyandindiaoffice/iorreading.html Information about the collections of the East India Company archive and more suggestions for further reading

www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelpregion/asia/india/indiaofficerecords/indiaofficehub.html Includes resources for Family History research. You can pay for copies of birth certificates and other documents through the Ecclesiastical Search Service

www.bl.uk/services/learning.html The British Library's Living Words site for schools - includes resources and an interactive Trading Places game

Take a course at Fathom. The British Library's online learning partner, Fathom, has created a seminar around the exhibition. Taught by the curator of the exhibition, Anthony Farrington, the seminar is free and gives an illustrated account of the history of the East India Company.

Other web resources

www.standardchartered.com Sponsor’s website – for more information about their values and business

www.telegraph.co.uk Media Sponsor’s website – for news and views

www.vam.ac.uk Site of the Victoria & Albert Museum. Contains many items which originally formed part of the East India Company Museum collection

www.nmm.ac.uk Site of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich, includes information about vessels, trading and all things to do with the sea.

www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk Has many Asian collections which include trade goods (textiles, porcelain etc) brought to Europe

www.welshpool.com/powis.html Houses the Clive Museum of items brought back from India by Robert Clive

www.theeastindiacompany.com Site of the current UK plc with information about the history plus products and services

www.pataks.co.uk For information about the company, spices and Indian food

www.twinings.co.uk For information about the company, the history of tea, current gossip and today’s product range.

About this website

www.grdd.co.uk This Trading Places exhibition website is designed by GR/DD, a London based graphic and interactive design consultancy.

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