1st Edition
John Bullion's Empire Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars
By G. Balachandran
Copyright 1996
220 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
264 Pages
by
Routledge
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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.
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 The Rupee in a Changing World; Chapter 3; Chapter 4 ‘Gold for the West and Silver for the East’; Chapter 5 Stabilizing the Floating Rupee: 1921–6; Chapter 6 Britain, U.S.A., and the Indian Gold Standard Controversy, 1925–7; Chapter 7 The Depression Years; Chapter 8 The Politics of Monetary Autonomy and the Imperial Interest in Interwar India; Chapter 9 Conclusion;
Biography
G. Balachandran