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Autore: |
Balachandran G.
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Titolo: |
John Bullion's empire : Britains' gold problem and India between the wars / / G. Balachandran
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Pubblicazione: | London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (265 p.) |
Disciplina: | 332.4/954 |
Soggetto topico: | Monetary policy - Great Britain |
Monetary policy - India | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain Economic policy 1918-1945 |
India Economic policy | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | First published in 1996 by Curzon Press. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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 |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | John Bullion's empire ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-315-02659-7 |
1-136-79057-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464900703321 |
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