John Bullion's Empire: Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars / Edition 1

by G. Balachandran

Overview

Study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and the City.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780700704286
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/03/1996
Series:	SOAS London Studies on South Asia , #10
Pages:	264
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

G. Balachandran

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Rupee in a Changing World; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 ‘Gold for the West and Silver for the East’; Chapter 5 Stabilizing the Floating Rupee: 1921–6; Chapter 6 Britain, U.S.A., and the Indian Gold Standard Controversy, 1925–7; Chapter 7 The Depression Years; Chapter 8 The Politics of Monetary Autonomy and the Imperial Interest in Interwar India; Chapter 9 Conclusion;