The Richest East India Merchant: The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836 by Anthony Webster

The Richest East India Merchant: The Life and Business of John Palmer of Calcutta, 1767-1836

Worlds of the East India Company

Anthony Webster

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nonfiction history
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John Palmer was the most influential and wealthiest British merchant in British India for the first three decades of the nineteenth century. He ran an agency house', a global commercial firm involved in banking, the opium trade, shipping, plantat...

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