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This is an in-depth study of the economic history of medieval India, particularly Mughal India, focusing on internal and foreign trade, seaports and shipping, transport and communication, commercial items for trade and factors that affect the course of economic life. Focusing on the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries, it points out that under the Mughals, there was a very substantial expansion of an integrated market. The trade contributed to increase in the ...
The political economy of the Mughal empire and of the European trade with India clearly mark out the age of Mughal rule as a distinct phase in the country's economic history. In recent years, there has been increasing interest among scholars and the general educated public in the nature and causes of the economic development or stagnation of nation. Few of the questions raised by this concern regarding the position of inland and foreign trade of India during the ...
The aim in this book is to present a brief general survey of Economic History of the Ancient India from the earliest time to the middle of Seventh century. The book consists of twelve chapters. The first chapter deals with geological background of ancient Indian history. The second chapter makes a survey of the Indus Valley civilization. From third chapter to eighth chapter, it is a discussion of the economic conditions of early Indian agriculture, peasants, ...