Integrating statistical analysis with socio-economic history, this volume discusses various aspects of Mughal economy like ecology, gender and occupations,demography and settlement patterns, imperial administration, trade and finance. INDICE: Preface; Original sites of publication; Abbreviations; List of ; Introduction;; 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;; 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;; 8.: Problems of Mughal Revenue AdministrationTodarmal's Original Memorandum March 1582;; 9.: Reforming Revenue-Administration-II 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;n; 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;; 17.: Gujarat Ports and their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship; Index
- ISBN: 978-0-19-806631-6
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 344
- Fecha Publicación: 08/07/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés