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Banārasīdās et Jean-Baptiste Tavernier : feux croisés sur l’histoire économique de l’Inde au XVIIe siècle

Article de revue

2009

Jérôme Petit

26-27

141-152

Bulletin d'Études Indiennes

https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01112857

This paper would like to present two personal tales putting a light on the economic history of the seventeenth-century India. The first one is the Ardhakathānaka by Banārasīdās, a Jain merchant fr

This paper would like to present two personal tales putting a light on the economic history of the seventeenth-century India. The first one is the Ardhakathānaka by Banārasīdās, a Jain merchant from Jaunpur, and the second one is Les six voyages by Jean-Baptiste Tavernier, a French traveler and trader. Both texts evoke in a living style the apprenticeship of Indian traders, the way to create societies and to make business, how to get money in order to start a new business, the role of the bankers, the use of bills of exchange (hundi), and how the merchants travel during their business trip.

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