The Indian Ocean world has a rich history of socio-economic and cultural exchanges across time and space. This book and its companion, Merchants and Ports in the Indian Ocean World explore these connections around the wider Indian Ocean world.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements List of Contributors Introduction: Connections in the Indian Ocean World Radhika Seshan and Ryuto ShimadaPART IConnections by Sea 1 Markets and Competition: Opium Trade in the Malay-Indonesian Archipelago from the Late Seventeenth to the Early Eighteenth Century Shohei Okubo2 Safavid Mission to Siam and the Indian Ocean World in the Late Seventeenth Century Tomoko Morikawa3 West Africa and France in the Rebuilding of Pondicherry after 1816: The Case of Textile Industry Kazuo Kobayashi4 Circulation of the Kachchhi Bhatiya in the 19th Century: Towards the Indian Ocean World History Hideaki SuzukiPART IIHinterland Connections5 Ports, Markets, Commercial Networks, and Politics: Case of Tal (South) Konkan in the 17th Century Neelambari Jagtap6 Hinterland Connections in 18th-Century North Konkan: Secondary Ports, Coastal Connections, and Internal Markets Sumitra Kulkarni7 Inland Trade Networks under the Marathas in the 18th–19th Century: With Special Reference to Indāpūr Pargaṇā in Puṇe Subhā Michihiro OgawaIndex