The Mughal Fiscal System in Surat and the English East India Company
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3631416 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Farhat Hasan (0000-0003-1099-4750, Aligarh Muslim University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 711-718 |
| Publication date | 1993-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x00001268 |
| OpenAlex | W1971105847 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 3 |
In this paper an attempt is made to outline the basic structure of taxes on trade and commerce at the Mughal port of Surat during the seventeenth century. This is explored chiefly from documents relating to the English East India Company. By the very nature of the Company being a foreign corporate body, it did not represent a typical 'peddling' tax-payer. But the system in so far as the ordinary merchants were concerned, can be restored for us indirectly by considering how far the Company was favoured in taxation matters. We may also reconsider the common view that the English enjoyed 'invidious trading privileges' by virtue of the orders of the imperial court, and that it was their privileges that explain their ultimate success in India
Business · Economics · Economy · Political science · Port (circuit theory · Virtue · Engineering · Historical Economic and Social Studies · Law
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
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| Citation span | 2005 - 2023 (19) |
| Highly cited | No |