What is it about?
In the 1750s, the Dutch VOC established trade relations with Kachh to procure textiles and some other merchandise from the region. This is a study of the economic potentials that got the Dutch interested in the region and the nature of the relationship between the VOC and the ruler of Kachh.
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Why is it important?
This explores the less known aspects of the economy of Kachh based on contemporary Dutch records.
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This page is a summary of: Exploring the Gulf of Kachh: Regional Economy and Trade in the Eighteenth Century, Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, January 2008, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/156852008x317789.
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