People, taxation, and trade in Mughal India / by Shireen Moosvi

By:

Moosvi, Shireen

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Series: Aligarh Historians Society series / ed by Irfan Habib Oxford India paperbacks Collected essaysPublication details: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008.Description: xxxv, 304 p. : ill., mapsISBN:

9780195693157
0195693159

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DDC classification:

954.025 MOO-P

Contents:

Contents : The Economic Experience -- 1. The Indian Economic Experience, 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study -- 2. The Silver Influx, Money Supply, Prices and Revenue-Extraction in Mughal India -- 3. A Note on Interest Rates in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries -- Ecology, Demography and Gender -- 4. Ecology, Population Distribution and Settlement Pattern in Mughal India -- 5. Data on Mughal-Period Vital Statistics A Preliminary Survey of Usable Information -- 6. Urban Population in Pre-Colonial India -- 7. Work and Gender in Mughal India -- Taxation and Imperial Finance -- 8. Problems of Mughal Revenue Administration Todarmal's Original Memorandum, March 1582 -- 9. Reforming Revenue Administration Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas, 1665 -- 10. A Programme of Reliefs for the People of Kashmir: An Imperial Edict of Shahjahan -- 11. Expenditure on Buildings under Shahjahan: A Chapter of Imperial Financial History -- 12. The Mughal Empire and the Deccan Economic Factors and Consequences -- 13. Scarcities, Prices and Exploitation: 'The Agrarian Crisis', 1658-70 -- Shipping and Ports -- 14. Shipping and Navigation under Akbar -- 15. Mughal Shipping at Surat in the First Half of Seventeenth Century -- 16. Travails of a Mercantile Community Aspects of Social Life at the Port of Surat (Earlier Half of the Seventeenth Century) -- 17. Gujarat Ports and their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship.

Summary: This collection of essays covers all socio-economic aspects of Mughal India. The analyses integrates statistical approach with socio-economic history, featuring varied topics like taxation, population, settlement patterns as well as trade and shipping in Mughal India.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : The Economic Experience --
1. The Indian Economic Experience, 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study --
2. The Silver Influx, Money Supply, Prices and Revenue-Extraction in Mughal India --
3. A Note on Interest Rates in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries --
Ecology, Demography and Gender --
4. Ecology, Population Distribution and Settlement Pattern in Mughal India --
5. Data on Mughal-Period Vital Statistics A Preliminary Survey of Usable Information --
6. Urban Population in Pre-Colonial India --
7. Work and Gender in Mughal India --
Taxation and Imperial Finance --
8. Problems of Mughal Revenue Administration Todarmal's Original Memorandum, March 1582 --
9. Reforming Revenue Administration Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas, 1665 --
10. A Programme of Reliefs for the People of Kashmir: An Imperial Edict of Shahjahan --
11. Expenditure on Buildings under Shahjahan: A Chapter of Imperial Financial History --
12. The Mughal Empire and the Deccan Economic Factors and Consequences --
13. Scarcities, Prices and Exploitation: 'The Agrarian Crisis', 1658-70 --
Shipping and Ports --
14. Shipping and Navigation under Akbar --
15. Mughal Shipping at Surat in the First Half of Seventeenth Century --
16. Travails of a Mercantile Community Aspects of Social Life at the Port of Surat (Earlier Half of the Seventeenth Century) --
17. Gujarat Ports and their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship.

This collection of essays covers all socio-economic aspects of Mughal India. The analyses integrates statistical approach with socio-economic history, featuring varied topics like taxation, population, settlement patterns as well as trade and shipping in Mughal India.

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