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Money in the village
Chapter 8: Agrarian Society and the Mughal Empire · HISTORY · EN medium
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Money in the village The seventeenth-century French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier found it remarkable that in “India a village must be very small indeed if it has not a money- changer called a Shroff. (They) act as bankers to make remittances of money (and who) enhance the rupee as they please for paisa and the paisa for these (cowrie) shells”. Fig. . A woman spinning thread Fig. . A shroff at work
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