People, Taxation and Trade in Mughal India

Description

This comprehensive collection by one of the most well-known historians of Mughal history is based on strong empirical grounding and primary sources. Integrating statistical analysis with socio-economic history, Shireen Moosvi contributes to our understanding of a range of subjects relating to the medieval Indian economy. The book discusses five themes that deal with the economic experience of people as well as the states. The collection has a wide range which includes analysis of varied regions such as Deccan, Surat, Kashmir apart from the Mughal north India. It discusses economy and administration in the lifetimes of three Mughal Emperors-Akbar, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb. The volume discusses crucial aspects of Mughal domains which hardly many historians have analysed systematically. These essays deal with population and settlement patterns, political problems and their economic linkages, work patterns and their relation with gender, provincial and imperial administration and finance.

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Table of contents

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 Administration Todarmal'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