01244nam a2200157Ia 450000500170000000800410001702000150005808200210007310000240009424500880011826000370020630000100024352007850025365000240103865000240106220261027161105.0260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und||  a8185229651  223a332.0954 BAG  a Bagchi,Amiya Kumar 0aMoney & Credit in Indian Historyb: From Early Medieval Timesc/ Amiya Kumar Bagchi  aNew Delhib: Tulika Booksc,2002  a228p.  aThe papers presented in this volume arise out of the session on money, banking and finance, organized under the auspices of the Indian History Congress, Kolkata, 2000. In most historical periods in India, groups of people have been engaged in exchanges of their products, with money being extensively used as a medium of exchange. There is no point, however, trying to define who exactly were the bankers, or bankers and money-changers, or bankers, merchants, and money-changers rolled into one, without specifying the context. They functioned in very different ways, and thus alert us to the infinite potential of human ingenuity. Further, they tell us something about the way the use of particular institutions has a perceptible influence on the evolution of the larger society.  aFinancial economics  aPolitical economics