The Imperial Monetary System of Mughal India

by Richards, John F.

• ISBN13: 9780195649796
• ISBN10: 0195649796
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Early modern India under the Mughals evolved a powerful uniform currency and monetary order. Remarkable for the sheer number and distribution of coins, as well as for the fact that this huge mint output occurred in a region lacking significant metals, the monetary system was pervasive, flexible, and long-lived. These seven essays by distinguished economic historians constitute the first coherent and systematic study of the Mughal system and the process of imperial monetary integration over two centuries.

Table of Contents

Contributors	x
Introduction	1	(12)
J. F. Richards
The Development of Akbar's Currency System and Monetary Integration of the Conquered Kingdoms	13	(55)
John S. Deyell
The Reforms of the Sixteenth Century and Akbar's Administration: Metrological and Monetary Considerations	68	(32)
Marie H. Martin
The Structure of Monetary Exchange in North India: The Provinces of Agra, Delhi and Lahore in 1600	100	(37)
Stephen P. Blake
A System of Trimetallism in the Age of the `Price Revolution': Effects of the Silver Influx on the Mughal Monetary System	137	(34)
John S. Deyell
Irfan Habib
Foreign Merchants and Indian Mints in the Seventeenth and the Early Eighteenth Century	171	(22)
Om Prakash
Official Revenues and Money Flows in a Mughal Province	193	(39)
J. F. Richards
Money-use in Late Pre-colonial India and the International Trade in Currency Media	232	(143)
Frank Perlin
Index	375