读过《The World of the Indian Ocean Merchant, 1500-1800 Collected Essays of Ashin Das Gupta》130927 | Decline of Surat as the breakdown of the quadrilineal system which marked two Indias; Malabar extracted by Travancore; Hooghly replaced by Calcutta; Coromandel relative prosperity; first decline of Surat, then the rise of Bombay