Economic Development of India Under the East India Company 1814-58 - A Selection of Contemporary Writings

Klappentext This volume brings together a number of tracts on problems of India's economic development. Zusammenfassung This 1971 volume brings together a number of tracts on problems of India's economic development! particularly in relation to the changes taking place in her international trade. The papers reprinted here illustrate first the quantitative aspects of Indian trade in this period! and secondly its institutional and policy features. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Indian currency and weights; Introduction and statistical appendix; 1. George Alexander Prinsep, remarks on the external commerce and exchanges of Bengal, with appendix of accounts and estimates (1823); 2. Thomas Tooke, a history of prices, and of the State of the circulation during the nine years (1848-56), volume VI (1857), appendix XXIII; 3. John Horsley Palmer, minutes of evidence taken before the Select Committee on the affairs of the East India Company, 16 March 1832; 4. John Crawfurd, a sketch of the commercial resources and monetary and mercantile system of British India, with suggestions for their improvement, by means of banking establishments (1837); Index.

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• Authors: K. N. Chaudhuri, K.n. Chaudhuri, Chaudhuri K. N.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.08.2010
• EAN: 9780521153362
• ISBN: 978-0-521-15336-2
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: European Understanding of Indi
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