CONTENTS: Preface, PART I: ECONOMIC MILIEU AND METHODS OF ENQUIRY: 1. Numismatic Evidence and the Economic History of the Delhi Sultanate, 2. The Indian Economic Experience, 1600-1900: A Quantitative Study, 3. A Note on Interest Rates in the Seventeenth and Early Eighteenth Centuries, 4. Capitalism, Globalization and Crises: The Need for Fundamental Change?, 5. Economic Profile of the Punjab, Sixteenth-Seventeenth Centuries, 6. Changing Economic Structures and Demographic Profile of the Indian City, c. 1600-c. 1900, 7. Sharing the 'Asiatic Mode'?: India and Iran, 8. Economic Change in the Seventeenth Century: A Quantitative Approach, 9. The Economy of Gujarat, c. 1600: The A'in-i Akbari's Statistics, 10. Note on Professor Alan Heston's 'Standard of Living in Akbar's Time': A Comment, PART II: TRADE, SHIPPING AND COMMERCE: 11. Shipping and Navigation under Akbar, 12. Mughal Shipping at Surat in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, 13. Travails of a Mercantile Community: Aspects of Social Life at the Port of Surat (Earlier Half of the Seventeenth Century), 14. Gujarat Ports and Their Hinterland: The Economic Relationship, 15. A 'State Sector' in Overseas Trade: The Imperial Mughal Shipping Establishment at Surat, 16. Trade and Merchants in Mughal India, 17. India's Sea Trade with Iran in Medieval Times, 18. Indian Brokers, the Dutch Company and Monetary Crisis in Iran in the 1680s, 19. Armenians in Asian Trade: Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Index. 310pp.,