Historicity

The slave and rice trade in the Indian ocean is relatively well known to the historian of commerce.The Indian ocean slave and rice trade has not attracted analysis akin to the Atlantic slave trade.A few fundamental attempts have been made to delineate the

• Indian Slave
• Rice Trade
• slave market

1. F. W. Stapel, Gravenhage, 1932, Vol. II, P. 97.
2. W. Coolhass, Generale Missiven, Vol. II, 1639-1654, P.233
3. Ibid., P. 754.
4. W. H. Moreland, India at the Death of Akbar an Economic Study, Delhi, 1990, PP. 87, 93, 113, 117.
5. P. D. Curtin, The Atlantic Slave Trade: A Census, Madison, 1969, The Indian Historical Review, Vol. XV, July 1998, PP. 1-15.
6. Irfan Habib, Non-Agricultural Production and Urban Economy, The Cambridge Economic History of India, Cambridge, 1982, PP. 89-93.
7. Irfan Habib, Slavery in the Delhi Sultanat, 13th and 14th Centuries, Indian Historical Review, Vol. XV, PP. 233-47.
8. Ibid., PP. 437-440.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid., P. 755.