This lecture aims at revealing the connection between the rise of Indian economic nationalism in British India and the formation of international economic order of Asia at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, mainly focusing on the activities and views of prominent early Indian nationalists of moderate factions, like Dadabhai Naoroji, and the economic activities of Indian merchants to accelerate Indian overseas trade. I interpret the activities of early Indian nationalists as ‘collaborators’ to the British Raj. The presence of ‘collaborators’ was essential for British rule in India, especially at the end of the 19th century, when the rising tide of Indian economic nationalism emerged. This paper tries to create a kind of global history from Asian perspectives, by using relational history approach. It also analyzes the interaction between the British Raj and the Indian economic nationalists from new perspectives of ‘collaboration’ and ‘autonomy’. The main actors of ‘collaboration’ are a prominent Indian merchant in Bombay, the Tata family, and the largest Japanese shipping company in Meiji-period, the Nippon Yusen Kaisha (N.Y.K.) for the export of Indian raw cotton to Japan and China. The development of business activities of N.Y.K. was closely related to Japanese industrialization, centered round Osaka (Kansai) area in the late nineteenth century. Biographical Statement: Dr. Shigeru AKITA is Professor of British Imperial History and Global History at Osaka University, Japan. His many publications include The British Empire and the International Order of Asia (in Japanese, Nagoya University Press, 2003), and The International Order of Asia in the 1930s and 1950s (London: Ashgate, 2010, co-edited with Nick White). This year, he was awarded YomiuriYoshino Sakuzo Prize, which recognizes the best book published in Japan in the past year in the fields of politics, economics, and history.