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British Mercantile Cooperation in the India-China Trade from the End of the East India Company's Trading Monopoly*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Ian Nish
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“[Your committee] are not aware that anything material has been omitted that could have conduced to the welfare of the Association, or the trade of India and China generally…They have not failed to maintain their communications with the different Presidencies in India and the Chambers of Commerce at Canton and Singapore.”

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Journal of Southeast Asian History , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , September 1962 , pp. 74 - 91
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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1962

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page 74 note 1. London East India and Chinese Association/report for 1838. (hereafter cited as London Association)

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page 85 note 2. The Liverpool Association report for 1855 is described as the 14th annual report which means that the first was issued in 1841. But British parliamentary papers show that the Liverpool Association addressed Palmerston on 4 October 1839 in a letter signed by W. Nichol as chairman. Memorials addressed to H. M. Government by British merchants interested in the Trade with China (1840) pp. 5–7.

page 85 note 3. I am grateful to the secretary of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce for some of this information.

page 85 note 4. It is referred to in the London Association report for 1848.

page 85 note 5. Minutes of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, vol V. I am grateful for this reference to the secretary of the chamber.

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