Up-Country Network
—Organization of
credit produced network of contacts all over the country which could be used
for the selling and purchasing of the goods traded in the ports. British
traders poor knowledge of the north-western parts of India, their absence of a
network of agents and the competition of the natives accounted for the weak
representation of British merchant capital in these areas. Foreign firms
naturally found themselves dependent on Marwari merchants with such network.
—The unwillingness of
other trading communities to move up-country was partially due to the sorts of
humiliations which upcountry traders had to sustain in connection with inland
levies on goods. The Marwaris were presumably
willing to pocket the humiliation of up-country trading which left other
communities at somewhat of a disadvantage
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