British Wartime Protectionism and Swiss Trading Companies in Asia during the First World War

Dejung, Christof; Zangger, Andreas

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“…Switzerland, to cut their many connections to Germany. 50 Although India officially supported Great Britain during the war, Germany's political interest in the revolutionary potential of the country also increased, and Germany actively engaged in organizing anti-imperial outbreaks in India. 51 The German government supported and funded Indian revolutionaries, such as the Ghadar movement of immigrants, mainly Punjabi, in the United States, which organized disturbances in India and eventually attempted an armed uprising against the British.…”

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Global Trade and Indian Politics: The German Dye Business in India before 1947

Lubinski¹

2015

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This article analyzes the German dye business in India before 1947 as an example of expanding German-Indian commercial relationships. German dye manufacturers showed great interest in India's economic potential in the absence of discriminatory tariffs, while Indian elites were interested in non-British Western partners, which could support their struggle for industrial self-reliance. This particular alignment of interests facilitated cooperation and shows that the so-called European experience is more diverse than research has shown so far. The analysis highlights global trading networks beyond the political boundaries of formal empire and offers an alternative perspective on Indian business history, which reveals more competition between multinationals of different origins and more strategic choices available to Indians.

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Section: This Line Of Thinking Created a Pro-german Environment In Namentioning

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Global Trade and Indian Politics: The German Dye Business in India before 1947

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2015

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“…However, the existing literature on political risk in India mirrors the focus on the British-Indian relationship in Indian business history more generally and focuses on the biggest political concerns for British companies: rising Indian nationalism. Other forms of political risk in India have rarely been addressed, even though MNEs in India clearly faced a plethora of different political challenges over the course of the twentieth century, in particular if we take Tripathi's call seriously and include MNEs of non-British origin, as for example Dejung and Zangger (2010) and Arnold (2011Arnold ( , 2013 show. Howell and Chaddick (1994, p. 71) define political risk as "the possibility that political decisions, events or conditions in a country (…) will affect the business environment such that investors will lose money or have a reduced profit margin."…”

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