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

    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