People, taxation and trade in Mughal India / by Shireen Moosvi ; edited by Irfan Habib

Includes index.

INTRODUCTION -- THE ECONOMIC EXPERIENCE : The Indian economic experience, 1600-1900: a quantitative study -- The silver influx, money supply, prices and revenue-extraction in Mughal India -- A note on interest rates in the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries -- ECOLOGY DEMOGRAPHY AND GENDER : Ecology, population distribution and settlement pattern in Mughal India -- Data on Mughal period vital statistics: a preliminary survey of usable information -- Urban population in pre-colonial India -- Work and gender in Mughal India -- TAXATION AND IMPERIAL FINANCE :Problem of Mughal revenue administration Todarmal's original memorandum, March 1582 -- Reforming revenue administration Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas, 1665 -- A programme of reliefs for the people of Kashmir: an imperial edict of Shahjahan -- Expenditure on buildings under Shahjahan: a chapter of imperial financial history -- The Mughal empire and the Deccan economic factors and consequences -- Scarcities, prices and exploitation: the agrarian crisis, 1658-70 -- SHIPPING AND PORTS : Shipping and navigation under Akbar -- Mughal shipping at Surat in the first half of seventeenth century -- Travails of a Mercantile community aspects of social life at the port of Surat (earlier half of the seventeenth century) -- Gujrat ports and their hinterland: the economic relationship