People, Taxation, and Trade in Mughal India

Moosvi, Shireen:
People, taxation, and trade in Mughal India / Shireen Moosvi. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xxxv, 304 S. : Ill., Kt. - (Aligarh Historians Society series)
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ISBN 978-0-19-569315-7
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Beschreibung
This comprehensive collection of essays 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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Preface. xi
Original Sites of Publication. xiii
Abbreviations. xv
Introduction. xvii
THE ECONOMIC EXPERIENCE
1. The Indian Economic Experience, 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study. 1
2. The Silver Influx, Money Supply, Prices and Revenue-Extraction in Mughal India. 35
3. A Note on Interest Rates in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries. 81
ECOLOGY, DEMOGRAPHY AND GENDER
4. Ecology, population Distribution and Settlement Pattern in Mughal India. 89
5. Data on Mughal-Period Vital Statistics A Preliminary Survey of Usable Information. 103
6. Urban Population in Pre-Colonial India. 119
7. Work and Gender in Mughal India. 135
TAXATION AND IMPERIAL FINANCE
8. Problem of Mughal Revenue Administration Todarmal's Original Memorandum, March 1582. 159
9. Reforming Revenue Administration Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas: 1665. 175
10. A Programme of Reliefs for the People of Kashmir: An Imperial Edict of Shahjahan. 186
11. Expenditure on Buildings under Shahjahan: A Chapter of Imperial Financial History. 199
12. The Mughal Empire and Deccan Economic Factors and Consequences. 213
13. Scarcities, Prices and Exploitation: 'The Agrarian Crisis', 1658-70. 229
SHIPPING AND PORTS
14. Shipping and Navigation under Akbar. 243
15. Mughal Shipping at Surat in the First Half of Seventeenth Century. 257
16. Travails of a Mercantile Community Aspects of Social Life at the Port of Surat (Earlier Half of the Seventeenth Century). 275
17. Gujarat Ports and their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship. 288
INDEX

Autorin
SHIREEN MOOSVI, Professor at the Centre of Advanced Study in History, Aligarh Muslim University where she has been teaching since 1970. She is a leading member of what is now known as the Aligarh school of historians who aim at combining critical rigour with evolving visions of History. With a background in both statistics and history, she has worked with primary documents for her with primary documents for her wide-raging researches in economic and social history of Mughal India. Her book Economy of the Mughal Empire, c.1995 – a Statistical Study (OUP, 1987) is an attempt at quantitative analysis of Mughal economy, while Episodes in the Life of Akbar (1994) brings history to life by giving extracts from contemporary sources.

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Schlagwörter: Geschichte; Mogulreich; Wirtschaftsgeschichte; Sozialgeschichte