Nagendra Rao: Muslim Merchants in Pre-Modern South Western India
Nagendra Rao: Muslim Merchants in Pre-Modern South Western India
Nagendra Rao: Muslim Merchants in Pre-Modern South Western India
MUSLIM MERCHANTS
IN PRE-MODERN
SOUTH WESTERN INDIA
by
NAGENDRA RAO
51. Vasundhara Filliozat (ed.). Op. cit, pp. 318-319. The fall of Vijayanagara
adversely affected the Portuguese trade in India, especially the trade
in horses. Subsequently, many dynasties arose, prominent among
which was the Keladi kingdom also known as Ikkeri kingdom. The
Portuguese continued trading with the Ikkeri rulers. However, by
monopolising the trade in rice and pepper, Ikkeri rulers tried to sell
goods to Portuguese at unfavourable terms and conditions.
52. K. S. Mathew, “Indian Merchants and the Portuguese Trade on the
Malabar Coast during the Sixteenth Century", Teotonio R de Souza, Indo-
Portuguese History: CM Issues, New Questions {New Delhi, 1985), p. 7.
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53. See, Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modem World System, Vol. II:
Mercantilism and Consolidation of the European World Economy, 1600-
1750 (New York, Academic Press, 1980).
54. Andre Wink, Op. cit., p. 4.