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Andrew Mueller
Can the hive mind can help me with a question on #earlymodern commercial culture in #India? In my research I identified (or rather failed to) four individuals who Prussians East India Company servants had dealings with during their time in 1750s Bengal. Can anybody help me find out more about them?
Any tips, thoughts, or insights would be hugely appreciated.
I know next to nothing except their names - and those only in questionable French transliterations: "Cokvasin", a Muslim merchant with a substantial fleet; "Merza Gonaverdy" who they employed as vakil in legal proceedings;
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Then there is "Bissendas” and “Likikander” (described as “noir”) and “Guicham” and “Sirmond” both described as “gentil” (i.e. Hindu). “Manichaudery” and “Durgaramitter”are both noted as Muslims, and, just to make things really clear a “Likikander” is described as _both_ Muslim and Hindu.
