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The Richest East India Merchant - The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836 (Hardcover)
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The Richest East India Merchant - The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836 (Hardcover)
Series: Worlds of the East India Company
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Biography and business history of wealthy British merchant in India
reveals much about the nineteenth-century Empire. John Palmer was
the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British
India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran
an `agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking,
the opium trade,shipping, plantation agriculture and trade with
Britain, Europe, China, south east Asia and the USA. When his firm
went bankrupt in 1830, thousands of people, European and Indian,
were ruined, triggering the worst commercial crisis in British
India up to that time. This book, the first major study of a
British agency house in India, presents an account of both of
Palmer's business and personal life, showing how his personal
relations and circumstances shaped his commercial strategies, with
ultimately disastrous consequences for Anglo-Indian relations as
well as his clients. ANTHONY WEBSTER is Head of Humanities at the
University of Central Lancashire.
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