Shireen Moosvi - Economic History of Mughal India - 2 Vols

Primus Books has recently published the two-volume

by Shireen Moosvi. Economic History of Mughal India, Volume I brings together a selection of nineteen essays written over the last four decades. These writings cover a range of subjects including numismatics, trade, shipping, regional economic profiles, and capitalism, giving readers an in-depth analysis into the economy of the subcontinent between 1600 and 1900. The second volume brings together a selection of seventeen essays written over the last four decades. The book examines a variety of topics, touching upon imperial revenue administration, monetary systems, land revenue and rights, and the development of the economy in urban centres during the reigns of Akbar, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb. Content: Volume I Preface PART I: ECONOMIC MILIEU AND METHODS OF ENQUIRY 1. Numismatic Evidence and the Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate 2. The Indian Economic Experience, 1600–1900: A Quantitative Study 3. A Note on Interest Rates in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries 4. Capitalism, Globalization and Crises: The Need for Fundamental Change? 5. Economic Profile of the Punjab, Sixteenth–Seventeenth Centuries 6. Changing Economic Structures and Demographic Profile of the Indian City, c.1600–c.1900 7. Sharing the ‘Asiatic Mode’?: India and Iran 8. Economic Change in the Seventeenth Century: A Quantitative Approach 9. The Economy of Gujarat, c.1600: The A’in-i Akbari’s Statistics 10. Note on Professor Alan Heston’s ‘Standard of Living in Akbar’s Time’: A Comment PART II: TRADE, SHIPPING AND COMMERCE 11. Shipping and Navigation under Akbar 12. Mughal Shipping at Surat in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century 13. Travails of a Mercantile Community: Aspects of Social Life at the Port of Surat (Earlier Half of the Seventeenth Century) 14. Gujarat Ports and Their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship 15. A ‘State Sector’ in Overseas Trade: The Imperial Mughal Shipping Establishment at Surat 16. Trade and Merchants in Mughal India 17. India’s Sea Trade with Iran in Medieval Times 18. Indian Brokers, the Dutch Company and Monetary Crisis in Iran in the 1680s 19. Armenians in Asian Trade: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Index Content: Volume II Preface PART I: IMPERIAL FINANCE 1. Problems of Mughal Revenue Administration: Todar Mal’s Original Memorandum, March 1583 2. Reforming Revenue Administration: Aurangzeb’s Farmān to Rasikdās, 1665 3. A Programme of Reliefs for the People of Kashmir: An Imperial Edict of Shahjahan 4. The Mughal Empire and the Deccan: Economic Factors and Consequences 5. Tax and Price Relationship in a Regime of ‘Asiatic Despotism’: A Theoretical Exercise 6. Monetary System and Price Movements in India 7. The Silver Influx, Money Supply, Prices and Revenue Extraction in Mughal India 8. Weighted Price and Revenue-Rate Indices of Eastern Rajasthan, c.1665–1750 PART II: URBAN ECONOMY 9. Urban Houses and Building: Use in Mughal India 10. The World of Labour in Mughal India, c.1500–1750 11. Mughal Agra: An Economic Profile 12. Expenditure on Buildings under Shahjahan: Imperial Financial History 13. Scarcities, Prices and Exploitation: The Agrarian Crisis, 1658–1670 PART III: REVENUE OF MEDIEVAL STATES AND LAND RIGHTS 14. An Estimate of Revenue of the Deccan Kingdoms, 1591 15. Share of the Nobility in the Revenues of Akbar’s Empire, 1595–1596 16. The Zamindars’ Share in the Peasant Surplus in the Mughal Empire: Evidence of the Ain-i-Akbari Statistics 17. Bhomi in the Territories of Amber, c.1650–1750 Index To procure your copy, please click on the link below: Volume I: https://primusbooks.com/.../economic-history-of-mughal.../ Volume II: https://primusbooks.com/.../economic-history-of-mughal.../ Happy Reading!! #shireenmoosvi #mughalempire #EconomicHistory