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