• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: The banking and mercantile house of Jagat Seths of Bengal
  • Contributor: Chaudhury, Sushil
  • Published: SAGE Publications, 2015
  • Published in: Studies in People's History, 2 (2015) 1, Seite 85-95
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1177/2348448915574381
  • ISSN: 2348-4489; 2349-7718
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  • Description: Banking and credit systems were fairly well advanced in pre-colonial India. Large amounts of capital for commercial credit were also available—though at some cost in terms of high interest rates. This article illustrates these conditions by a study of the banking and other activities of the house of Jagat Seths of Bengal in the mid-eighteenth century.