LEADER 04055oam 2200637I 450 001 9910813389503321 005 20230803034804.0 010 $a1-136-79064-0 010 $a1-315-02659-7 010 $a1-136-79057-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315026596 035 $a(CKB)3710000000117223 035 $a(EBL)1694399 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001224703 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12404617 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001224703 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11264512 035 $a(PQKB)10130644 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1694399 035 $a(OCoLC)881034314 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000117223 100 $a20180706d20131996 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aJohn Bullion's empire $eBritains' gold problem and India between the wars /$fG. Balachandran 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (265 p.) 225 1 $aLondon studies on South Asia ;$v10 300 $aFirst published in 1996 by Curzon Press. 311 $a1-138-87886-3 311 $a0-7007-0428-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aBritain, 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 327 $a6 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 327 $aThe 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 330 $aStudy of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in India between the wars, analysing colonial policies during Anglo-US efforts to reconstruct the international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore the pre-eminence of sterling and the City. 410 0$aLondon studies on South Asia ;$v10. 606 $aMonetary policy$zGreat Britain 606 $aMonetary policy$zIndia 607 $aGreat Britain$xEconomic policy$y1918-1945 607 $aIndia$xEconomic policy 615 0$aMonetary policy 615 0$aMonetary policy 676 $a332.4/954 700 $aBalachandran$b G.$01629157 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910813389503321 996 $aJohn Bullion's empire$93966697 997 $aUNINA