CONTENTS: Preface, PART I: IMPERIAL FINANCE: 1. Problems of Mughal Revenue Administration: Todar Mal's Original Memorandum, March 1582, 2. Reforming Revenue Administration: Aurangzeb's Farman to Rasikdas, 1665, 3. A Programme of Reliefs for the People of Kashmir: An Imperial Edict of Shahjahan, 4. The Mughal Empire and the Deccan: Economic Factors and Consequences, 5. Tax and Price Relationship in a Regime of 'Asiatic Despotism': A Theoretical Exercise, 6. Monetary System and Price Movements in India, 7. The Silver Influx, Money Supply, Prices and Revenue Extraction in Mughal India, 8. Weighted Price and Revenue-Rate Indices of Eastern Rajasthan, c.1665-1750, PARTII: URBAN ECONOMY: 9. Urban Houses and Building: Use in Mughal India, 10. The World of Labour in Mughal India, c.1500-1750, 11. Mughal Agra: An Economic Profile, 12. Expenditure on Buildings under Shahjahan: Imperial Financial History, 13. Scarcities, Prices and Exploitation: The Agrarian Crisis, 1658-1670, PART III: REVENUE OF MEDIEVAL STATES AND LAND RIGHTS: 14. An Estimate of Revenue of the Deccan Kingdoms, 1591, 15. Share of the Nobility in the Revenues of Akbar's Empire, 1595-1596, 16. The Zamindars' Share in the Peasant Surplus in the Mughal Empire: Evidence of the Ain-i-Akbari Statistics, 17. Bhomi in the Territories of Amber, c.1650-1750, Index. 306pp.,