Cotton textiles and corporate buyers in cottonpolis analyses the once prosperous export trade in cotton textiles and its effect on the economy of Gujarat, particularly of the cotton growing and textile manufacturing broach region, in the 17and 18 centuries—a contrast of light and shade, of rise and fall of fortunes. Two European corporate buyers, the English East India Company and Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie (The Dutch East India Company VOC), had ...
