Matthee, The Politics of Trade, 22. Also see, Roger Ferrier, “The Armenians and the East India Company in Persia in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries” in The Economic History Review, Vol. 26, No. 1, (1973), 38-39; Dale, The Muslim Empire, 120. For their role in India see, Furber, Rival Empires; Kenneth McPherson, The Indian Ocean: a History of People and the Sea (Oxford University Press, 1998)