The Exchange House

The Fort Museum was once the financial nerve centre of Fort St George in Chennai. It served as a trade exchange where free merchants and agents fixed prices of goods before shipping them off. Who exactly was a free merchant?
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Image attributions:
1. Shah Alam and Robert Clive
Benjamin West, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
2. Methods of Conveying Cotton in India
Illustrated London News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
3. The Government House, Fort St George
Thomas Daniell, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
4. Shahamir Shahamiryan Armenian Merchant
armin.am/galery_picture_more/l..., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
5. John de Monte Portuguese Merchant
Jayagomathi, CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons
6. Thomas Parry Welsh Merchant
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
7. Landing at Madras
William Simpson, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
8. Fort St. George
Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
9. Fort George, Madras, a steel engraving from the 1850's
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10. Fort St George in Madras, India - Around 1870
Leiden University Library, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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Very important and interesting history it should continue as a series .

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History presented in an excellent manner.. Keep it up 👍👍

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Thank you