Money and Credit in Indian History: From Early Medieval Times
Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (Ed.)
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Book ID : 21766
ISBN-10 : 81-85229-64-3 / 8185229643
ISBN-13 : 978-81-85229-64-5 / 9788185229645
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2002
Edition :
Language : English
viii, 228p., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
CONTENTS:- Indroduction: Money, banking and finance in India since early medieval times/Amiya Kumar Bagchi. 1. Money, market and Indian feudalism: AD 600-1200/Krishna Mohan Shrimali. 2. The system of credit in Mughal India/Om Prakash. 3. The monetary basis of credit and banking instruments in the Mughal Empire/Najaf Haider. 4. A note on interest rates in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries/Shireen Moosvi. 5. Money and banking under the Marathas: seventeenth century to AD 1848/A.R. Kulkarni. 6. Indigenous banking and commission agency in India's colonial economy/Rajat Kanta Ray. 7. Rise of modern banking in the princely states of India: the case of the Bank of Baroda/Dwijendra Tripathi. 8. The depression years: Indian capitalists' critique of British monetary and financial policy in India, 1929-39/Aditya Mukherjee. 9. Reforming rural credit: experience under the Fazlul Huq Ministry in Bengal/Manzur Ahsan. 10. Money and finance in the periphery: a tool of expropriation in colonial India/Sunanda Sen. 11. B.K. Dutt: a development banker from Bengal/Indrajit Mallick.
DESCRIPTION
The papers presented in this volume arise out of the session on money, banking and finance, organized under the auspices of the Indian History Congress, Kolkata, 2000. In most historical periods in India, groups of people have been engaged in exchanges of their products, with money being extensively used as a medium of exchange. There is no point, however, trying to define who exactly were the bankers, or bankers and money-changers, or bankers, merchants and money-changers rolled into one, without specifying the context. The essays in this volume specify the contexts in which apparently similar institutions of money and credit functioned in very different ways, and thus alert us to the infinite potential of human ingenuity. Further, they tell us something about the way the use of particular institutions has a perceptible influence on the evolution of the larger society.
