| Description |
1 online resource |
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London studies on South Asia |
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London studies on South Asia.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; India and British 'Internationalism' Between the Wars; Interests, Ideas, and Economic Policy; Interests and Ideas in Indian Monetary Affairs; The Interwar India Office and the City of London; Plan of the Book; 2 The Rupee in a Changing World; The Indian Currency System; The Gold Exchange Standard; The Role of Gold; Gold for India: Changing British Perceptions; 3 Britain, U.S.A. and the 'Surpluses of the Orient': 1916-18; British External Finance in the War |
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Britain, the U.S.A., and Indian Gold Imports during the WarIndian Trade in the War; The Convertibility Crisis; The Pittman Silver Agreement; Summary and Conclusion; 4 'Gold for the West and Silver for the East': Currency Policy in Postwar India; Indian Currency Dilemmas after the War; The Babbington-Smith Committee; The Triangular Context Revisited; Treasury Response to the Report; The Overflowing Sink; Summary and Conclusion; 5 Stabilizing the Floating Rupee: 1921-6; The External Environment; The Managed Float Regime in India; Currency Commission and Stabilization; Conclusion |
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6 Britain, U.S.A., and the Indian Gold Standard Controversy, 1925-7The Making of a Commission; The Gold Standard Controversy; The Politics of Silver, 1927-35; Gold-Bullion Standard -- Myth and Reality; 7 The Depression Years; 'Gold Shortage' and the Sterling Crisis; The Depression and India's External Sector; The Policy Response and Constraints; Gold Exports and Sterling Policy; Gold Exports and the Indian Economy; A Gold Glut?; Conclusion; 8 The Politics of Monetary Autonomy and the Imperial Interest in Interwar India; The Early Impetus for Central Banking |
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The Reserve Bank Controversy of 1927-8The Reserve Bank and Political Reform; 'Monetary Autonomy': A Summing Up; 9 Conclusion: India and the Crisis of British Finance; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Originally published: 2006 by Curzon Press |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Monetary policy -- Great Britain
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Monetary policy -- India
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Economics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General.
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Economic policy
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Monetary policy
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Financiële crises.
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Monetaire politiek.
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Economic policy -- 1918-1945.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056680
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India -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064896
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| Subject |
Great Britain
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India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781136790577 |
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1136790578 |
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1306825970 |
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9781306825979 |
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9781136790645 |
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1136790640 |
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