Monetary Foundations of the Raj

ISBN-13: 9781138280625 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 468 str.

Dr Sanjay Garg

Opis

This volume is an account of the monetary policies adopted by the British East India Company that resulted in the establishment of a uniform monetary regime in British India.

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PART I: STUDIES 1. Monetary Policy of British Imperialism 2. Economic Theorists among the Servants of  John Company (1766-1806) 3. Growth of Money Economy and Some Questions of Transitions in Late Pre-Colonial India 4. Currency in Early British Days  5. From a Double Standard to a Silver Standard 6. Note on the History of East India Company Coinage from 1753-1835 7. The Changing Monetary System in Bengal during the British Rule 8. Observations on the Copper Coinage Wanted for the Circars 9. The Substitution of Silver for Gold in the  Currency of South India 10. Madras Currency under the Early British Rule 11. The Coinage of the East India Company at Bombay, under the Charters of Charles II, with a Note on the Indian Exchanges of the Period 12. The Monetary System of British India 13. James Prinsep and the Currency Reform 14. First Uniform Currency for India 15. Imperial and Colonial Coinage. PART II: RECORDS 1. Regulation XXXV of 1793 2. Despatch Addressed by the Court of Directors to the Governments of Bengal and Madras Dealing with the Coinage of India, 1806 3. Letter from H. Scott, Assay Master, Bombay Mint, to F. Warden, Secretary to Bombay Government,  dated 7 December 1806 4. Notes by James Prinsep  5. Acts, Proclamations, Declarations and Notifications of the Government of India Concerning the Coinage, Currency and its Legal Tender (1835-56)