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ANTONELLA VIOLA
seems particularly urgent is to enhance our knowledge of the activities of Ottoman
Greeks in India and their links with the Ottoman Empire on the one hand, and
with Indian native traders on the other. Secondly, attention must be drawn to the
social interaction within the Greek mercantile communities in Calcutta and Bombay,
where the great majority of Greeks resided, in order to fathom how forms of sociability
were constructed and to what extent they influenced the conduct of economic
and commercial activities on the spot. This is probably a crucial point, and perhaps
the most engaging one, but it would require a great deal of work in many different
archives and the gathering of a substantial amount of primary sources. The recovery
and investigation of first-hand documents represents, in fact, the first important step
necessary to proceed to a thorough analysis of the economic and commercial activities
of the Greeks in India. Collecting sources of Greek firms in India could also
provide new and interesting material for those who work on Greek economic and
trading activities worldwide, offering new stimuli and ideas about how to approach
and investigate them.
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