Living without silver : the monetary history of early medieval North India
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Living without silver : the monetary history of early medieval North India
Oxford University Press, 1990
Available at 12 libraries
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Bibliography: p. [323]-333
includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book is concerned with money as an indicator of economic activity. It makes a comprehensive examination of the use of money from Afghanistan to Bihar, and from Kashmir to Malwa, during the period AD 750-1250. Its major premise is that the patterns of production, exchange and dispersion of money over time can be used to define the economic systems of early medieval North India. This book explains and interprets the economic history of the period, using current models of feudalization, decentralization, trade and commerce. The author rejects the common perception that money during this period was scarce, primitive and debased, by analyzing the evidence of surviving coin hoards. His findings suggest a considerably greater reliance on money, closer co-ordination of its use and its wider circulation in larger quantities, than is consistent with many current models of the early medieval Indian economy.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Probing the fragile foundations of interpretive models
- Economic historiography: the evolving milieu
- Part I: The post-classical age: c.750-1000
- The Gurjura-Pratiharas
- The Amirs of Sind
- The Turk and Hindu Shahis of Kabul and Gandhara
- Kashmir: Overview of the era: 750-10000
- Part II: The Rajput period: c.1000-1200: The Yaminids of Ghazni and the Punjab
- The kingdoms of east and central India
- Western India
- Malwa
- North India: Tomares and Chauhans
- Minor coinages: Overview of the era: 1000-1200
- Part III: The early Delhi sultanate: c.1200-1250: The Mu'izzid empire in India
- Derivative currencies in Afghanistan
- Establishment of the Delhi sultanate
- The precious metals famine in the Rajput kingdoms
- South India and the coinange frontier: Overview of the era: 1200-1250
- Part IV: A reprise, and a look forward: Appendices
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