TY  - BOOK
AU  - Moosvi, Shireen
TI  - People, taxation, and trade in Mughal India
T2  - Aligarh Historians Society series / ed by Irfan Habib
SN  - 9780195693157
U1  - 954.025 
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - AC
KW  - Mogul Empire
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - India
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents : The Economic Experience --
1. The Indian Economic Experience, 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study --
2. The Silver Influx, Money Supply, Prices and Revenue-Extraction in Mughal India --
3. A Note on Interest Rates in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries --
Ecology, Demography and Gender --
4. Ecology, Population Distribution and Settlement Pattern in Mughal India --
5. Data on Mughal-Period Vital Statistics A Preliminary Survey of Usable Information --
6. Urban Population in Pre-Colonial India --
7. Work and Gender in Mughal India --
Taxation and Imperial Finance --
8. Problems of Mughal Revenue Administration Todarmal's Original Memorandum, March 1582 --
9. Reforming Revenue Administration Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas, 1665 --
10. A Programme of Reliefs for the People of Kashmir: An Imperial Edict of Shahjahan --
11. Expenditure on Buildings under Shahjahan: A Chapter of Imperial Financial History --
12. The Mughal Empire and the Deccan Economic Factors and Consequences --
13. Scarcities, Prices and Exploitation: 'The Agrarian Crisis', 1658-70 --
Shipping and Ports --
14. Shipping and Navigation under Akbar --
15. Mughal Shipping at Surat in the First Half of Seventeenth Century --
16. Travails of a Mercantile Community Aspects of Social Life at the Port of Surat (Earlier Half of the Seventeenth Century) --
17. Gujarat Ports and their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship
N2  - This collection of essays covers all socio-economic aspects of Mughal India. The analyses integrates statistical approach with socio-economic history, featuring varied topics like taxation, population, settlement patterns as well as trade and shipping in Mughal India
ER  -