The present research work entitled Private Trade of the English Merchants and Decline of Bengals Economy, 1690-1765, i.e. from the English settlement in Calcutta up to the grant of diwani, is an attempt to narrate the gradual decline of Bengal economy by the entry of private English merchants. It is also an attempt to narrate the private trade of the Company’s officials, free-merchants, as well as interlopers, who had carried on this illegal trade in ...
