INDO-JAPAN COOPERATIVE VENTURES IN MATCH MANUFACTURING IN INDIA: MUSLIM MERCHANT NETWORKS IN AND BEYOND THE BENGAL BAY REGION 1900–1930

This paper discusses the role of Indian merchants, especially Muslims, in the match trade between Japan and India, and situates the cooperative ventures set up in the middle of the 1920s between Indian merchants and Japanese manufacturers in the context of the economy of the Bengal Bay region. Their...

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Published in:International journal of Asian studies 2004-01, Vol.1 (1), p.49-85
Main Author: Oishi, Takashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
19th century
Asian studies
Business
Capitalism
Cooperation
Exports
Factories
Humidity
Industrial development
International trade
Intra-Asian Networks
Logic
Manufacturers
Manufacturing
Merchants
Muslims
Regions
Studies
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Summary:This paper discusses the role of Indian merchants, especially Muslims, in the match trade between Japan and India, and situates the cooperative ventures set up in the middle of the 1920s between Indian merchants and Japanese manufacturers in the context of the economy of the Bengal Bay region. Their inter-regional networks and partnerships were important not just for trade, but also for manufacturing based on the flow of technology, ideas, information, and natural resources. The paper also shows that such ventures unexpectedly caused conflicts with movements in India to promote domestic industry and with the logic of territorial nationalism that lay behind them.
ISSN:1479-5914
1479-5922
DOI:10.1017/S1479591404000051