Moosvi, Shireen

People, taxation, and trade in Mughal India/ Shireen Moosvi - New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xxxv,304p. : ill. ; 23cm.

Includes bibliography and index.

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

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Mogul Empire--Economic conditions.
Mogul Empire--Social conditions.
Mogul Empire--Politics and government.

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