The Economy of the Mughal Empire c. 1595: A Statistical Study
Shireen Moosvi
Abstract
This is a revised version of a seminal work first published in 1987. Until then no real quantitative study of India’s precolonial economy had appeared, and statistical analysis had not really been applied to Indian economic history before the latter half of the nineteenth century. Moosvi’s attempt was path-breaking because, on the one hand, she closely studied the main source of statistics for the year c. 1595, namely Abu’l Fazl’s Ā’ῑn-i Akbarῑ, exploring and collating its earliest manuscripts and, on the other, applied all the available modern statistical tools to its scrutiny and to other ev ... More
This is a revised version of a seminal work first published in 1987. Until then no real quantitative study of India’s precolonial economy had appeared, and statistical analysis had not really been applied to Indian economic history before the latter half of the nineteenth century. Moosvi’s attempt was path-breaking because, on the one hand, she closely studied the main source of statistics for the year c. 1595, namely Abu’l Fazl’s Ā’ῑn-i Akbarῑ, exploring and collating its earliest manuscripts and, on the other, applied all the available modern statistical tools to its scrutiny and to other evidence. This edition takes into account such other material as has become available during the last 28 years or so, as well as her further researches. A special new feature is the estimate of the Gross Domestic Product and per-capita income for 1595, which the original edition lacked.
Keywords:
Ā’ῑn-i Akbarῑ,
Mughal Indian economy,
Mughal empire,
statistical data,
gross domestic product
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2015 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780199450541 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: December 2015 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199450541.001.0001 |
