Realms of Silver One Hundred Years of Banking in the East [Paperback]

REALMS OF SILVER: C. MACKENZIE:

CONTENTS

preface by W. R. Cockburn page v

authors note page viii

chapter i. The East India Company; James Wilson and the Chartered Bank; prospectus; subscription of capital; petition for a Royal charter; original directors of the Bank page 1

chapter ii. John Companys opposition; Wilsons intervention; grant of the Charter; dissident shareholders; commencement of business; the Bank and Australia page 16

chapter iii. India; first branches opened; Calcutta; Bombay; opium; cotton; boom and slump in the 1860s; Karachi; the telegraph page 28

chapter iv. The Suez Canal; the silver crisis; its effect on India and on exchange banking; rise of tea and jute industries page 41

chapter v. China; the Treaty Ports; the Bank opens in Shanghai and Hong Kong; exchange banking in China in the 1860s; the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation page 52

chapter vi. China; the Bank in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Hankow; the telegraph and the Suez Canal; Chinese currency; the silver crisis; the late nineteenth century; new competitors page 64

chapter vii. Burma; the Bank opens in Rangoon; rice; Akyab agency; expansion of trade in Rangoon Ceylon; rise and fall of the coffee industry; the Chettiars; the Banks Colombo agency page 79

chapter viii. Japan; Treaty Ports; Nagasaki and Yokohama in the 1860s; Japanese currency; the Bank opens in Yokohama page 93

chapter ix. The Straits Settlements; Sir Stamford Raffles; the Bank opens in Singapore; note issue; competitors in the 1860s; Penang branch; the opening-up of Malaya; branches at Taiping and Kuala Lumpur page 101

chapter x. Indonesia; the Dutch East India Company; the Culture System; the Bank opens in Batavia; business in the 1860s; the crisis of lC­