Chinese and Indian Merchants in Modern Asia: Networking Businesses and the Formation of a Regional Economy, edited by Chi-cheung Choi, Tomoko Shiroyama, and Takashi Oishi.

His essay addresses that puzzle through an analysis of the routes of migration and their links to trade in specific products, arguing that each merchant network is articulated in specific ways within the economy. Imperial policies were only one part of the explanation of how Indian merchants were able to build their businesses within the far-flung British empire. [Extracted from the article]