[Reader-list] A History of the Rupee, 1757-1858: Talk by Ian Barrow

[Praveen Rai]

Centre for the Study of Developing Societies

invites you to a talk





*A History of the Rupee, 1757-1858*

by *Ian Barrow*





*Awadhendra Sharan* will Chair

Thursday, 29 October 2015, 4 pm
                              RSVP

CSDS Seminar
Room,
                        Tel:
011 23942199

29 Rajpur Road, Delhi
110054
             Fax:
011 23943450

Please join us for tea at 3.30 pm

                              email: jaya at csds.in




The talk provides a history of the Indian rupee during the last century of
the East India Company’s existence. It begins with an overview of the
Company’s trade networks and the proliferation of currencies within its
territories. It continues by examining the Company’s reliance on indigenous
currency conventions, including references to the Mughal emperor, and its
great interest in the innovations of an allied state (Awadh). It then
explains the measures the Company took to unify its currencies and create
the Company Rupee in 1835. It finally discusses the significance of new
rupee in promoting a ‘colonial’ economy and reassesses the importance of
this era.



*Ian Barrow* is Professor of History at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA.
He is the author of *Surveying and Mapping in Colonial Sri Lanka* (OUP
2008) and *Making History, Drawing Territory: British Mapping in India, c.
1756-1905* (OUP 2003) as well as numerous articles in journals such as *The
Historian*, *Modern Asian Studies*, and *Imago Mundi*. He is currently
completing a short textbook on the history of the East India Company
(1600-1858). His longer-term project is an examination of ‘assassination
museums’ in South Asia. His work has been supported by grants and
fellowships from, among others, the American Institute of Indian Studies,
the Fulbright program, the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies and
the American Institute of Bangladesh Studies.



*Awadhendra Sharan* is an Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study
of Developing Societies.

Praveen Rai
Academic Secretary
Centre for the Study of Developing Societies
29, Rajpur Road
Delhi - 110054
Phone: 91-11-23942199
http://www.csds.in/praveen.rai