Economic History of Medieval India, 1200-1500

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Cover Centre for Studies in Civilizations Contents Preface General Introduction Editor and Author Contributors I: Antecedents: Two Regional Economies Chapter 1: The Economy of the Ghaznavid Empire, Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries Khurasan North-Western India Notes and References Chapter 2: The Economy of Gujarat in the Thirteenth Century The Agrarian Order and the Structure of Power Rajaputras Ranakas Panchakula Commerce Trade and Transport Credit and Exchange Coinage Society Notes and References II: Economy of the Period of the Delhi Sultanate Chapter 3: Forests, Deserts and Untilled Lands Notes and References Chapter 4: Means of Cultivation and Irrigation Peasant Agricultural Practices Canals Notes and References Chapter 5: Crops Notes and References Chapter 6: Agricultural Manufactures Notes and References Chapter 7: The Pastoral Sector Notes and References Chapter 8: The Agrarian Classes Notes and References Chapter 9: Land Tax and Other Rural Taxes Notes and References Chapter 10: Non-Agricultural Production Extractive Industries and Metallurgy Textiles Building Industry Paper Manufacture Glassware Glazed Ware Soap Manufacture Notes and References Chapter 11: Forms of Labour Slavery Free Labour Notes and References Chapter 12: Transport, Communications and Navigation Inland Transport Means of Communication Oceanic Navigation Notes and References Chapter 13: Towns and Trade Cities and Towns Towns and the Networks of Commerce Urban Taxation and Imposts on Trade Urban Taxation and Imposts on Trade Merchants: Social Composition Organization of Commerce: Market, Capital and Credit Notes and References Chapter 14: The State and Economy Notes and References Chapter 15: Coinage and the Silver Crisis The Gold and Silver Tanka and the Billon Jital The Copper Currency Transnational Precious Metal Flows and Currency Circulation The Levant and the Indian Ocean The Crisis of Silver, Deflation and the Dominance of Billon-Copper Coinage Notes and References Chapter 16: Foreign Trade of India Indian Ports and Entrepots for Foreign Trade Trade Routes Westwards Trade Routes Eastwards Merchandise and Specie Merchants and Mercantile Organization Notes and References III: India in the Fifteenth Century Chapter 17: Economic Implications of Political Disintegration Notes and References IV: The Economy of the Vijayanagara Empire (1346–1542) Chapter 18: The Empire Notes and References Chapter 19: Agriculture and Irrigation Notes and References Chapter 20: Structure of the Agrarian Economy Karnataka and Southern Andhra Tamil Country Notes and References Chapter 21: The Financial Structure of the Empire Notes and References Chapter 22: Towns, Mines, Manufactures and Trade Notes and References Bibliography Index