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Indigenous Banking in India

1929

A good deal of scattered information is contained in the official and other literature to be found in the libraries of the India Office the office of the High Commissioner for India the London School of Economics and the British Museum and this has lieen searched fOr the purpose. [...] The nature and amount of the wealth thus hoarded was registered on gold or copper plates.' 1 Indigenous Banking in the Second to the Fifth Centuries A. D. The first few centuries of the Christian era coincide with the production of the early law books of the Hindus which are of interest not only from the *point of view of ancient jurisprudence and polity but also from that of economics and ban [...] The Bengal Districts Records of the eighteenth oentury show that the revenue was not paid by the land-owners to the revenue officers of the East India Company direct but was collected through the agency of the indigenous bankers. [...] p. EARLY HISTORY OF INDIGENOUS BANKING 21 to the native creditors of the State and also the arrears of the civil and military establishments are apparent and it might with strict propriety be expected that the Nawaub should apply a part of his treasures to the liquidation of these demands.' The Vizier's attitude in the matter may be gathered from the following article which among others he s [...] The man in the street knew little about the fluctuations in the rates of exchange and the banker made the most of this situation.
commerce industry
Pages
299
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.142148
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xix L.C. Jain view
Chapter I Early History of Indigenous Banking
1-26 unknown view
Chapter II Structure and Functions of Indigenous Banking
27-54 unknown view
Chapter III Methods of Indigenous Banking
55-92 unknown view
Chapter IV Interest Charges
93-114 unknown view
Chapter V Economic Position of Borrowers
115-139 unknown view
Chapter VI The Indigenous Bankers and the Joint-Stock Banks
140-ii unknown view
Chapter VII Defects of Indigenous Banking
185-225 unknown view
Chapter VIII The Future Outlook of Indigenous Banking
226-246 unknown view
Appendix
247-257 unknown view
Bibliography
258-260 unknown view
Glossary of Indigenous Terms
261-264 unknown view
Index
265-274 unknown view
Backmatter
i-ii unknown view

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