The Imperial Monetary System Of Mughal India (oxford India Paperbacks)

Contributed papers at a conference held at the National Humanities Center, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, 1981. Early modern India under the Mughals evolved a powerful uniform currency and monetary order. Remarkable for the sheer number and distribution of coins, as well as for the fact that this huge mint output occurred in a region lacking significant metals, the monetary system was pervasive, flexible, and long-lived. These seven essays by distinguished economic historians constitute the first coherent and systematic study of the Mughal system and the process of imperial monetary integration over two centuries. Revised version of papers presented at a conference held at Research Triangle Park in June 1981