: From Early Medieval Times Bagchi,Amiya Kumar creator text xx New Delhi : Tulika Books ,2002 9999 monographic und 228p. The 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. / Amiya Kumar Bagchi Financial economics Political economics 332.0954 BAG 8185229651 260608 20261027161105.0