Economic History of Mughal India: Collected Essays by Shireen Moosvi (Volume II)
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- AUTHOR : Shireen Moosvi
- HB ISBN : 978-93-7179-333-9
- Year : 2026
- Extent : 306
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Economic History of Mughal India, Volume II brings together a selection of seventeen essays written over the last four decades. The book examines a variety of topics, touching upon imperial revenue administration, monetary systems, land revenue and rights, and the development of the economy in urban centres during the reigns of Akbar, Shahjahan, and Aurangzeb.
This is the second in a four-volume set that brings together the author’s collected writings.
The Author
Shireen Moosvi is former Professor of History at Aligarh Muslim University. An eminent historian, she has published books and papers on colonial economic history and labour conditions in India. Some of her publications include The Economy of the Mughal Empire, c.1595 (repr., 2015); Taxation, Trade and People in Mughal India (2008); and her edited volumes Facets of the Great Rebellion: 1857 (repr., 2020) and Agrarian Poverty in Colonial Uttar Pradesh: The Dufferin Inquiry, 1887–1888 (2023).