04055oam 2200637I 450 991078642250332120230803034804.01-136-79064-01-315-02659-71-136-79057-810.4324/9781315026596 (CKB)3710000000117223(EBL)1694399(SSID)ssj0001224703(PQKBManifestationID)12404617(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224703(PQKBWorkID)11264512(PQKB)10130644(MiAaPQ)EBC1694399(OCoLC)881034314(EXLCZ)99371000000011722320180706d20131996 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrJohn Bullion's empire Britains' gold problem and India between the wars /G. BalachandranLondon ;New York :Routledge,2013.1 online resource (265 p.)London studies on South Asia ;10First published in 1996 by Curzon Press.1-138-87886-3 0-7007-0428-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 WarBritain, 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; Conclusion6 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 BankingThe 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; IndexStudy 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.London studies on South Asia ;10.Monetary policyGreat BritainMonetary policyIndiaGreat BritainEconomic policy1918-1945IndiaEconomic policyMonetary policyMonetary policy332.4/954Balachandran G.1524826MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910786422503321John Bullion's empire3765860UNINA