NEW BOOK: HUNDIS IN PRINCELY STATES OF INDIA
The E-Sylum (3/17/2024)
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NEW BOOK: HUNDIS IN PRINCELY STATES OF INDIA
Anil Bohora has published a new volume of his catalog detailing the Hundis scrip notes of India. -Editor
Anil writes:
"I have just published the second volume of a catalog related to Hundis titled "Catalog of Hundis Used in Princely States of India".
This book focuses on Hundis, which were a form of scrip used in India for quite a long time, used in princely states of India.
A4 Size. 408 Color Pages. Printed on Art Paper.
Price: US$60 + Shipping from India US$25
The book can be purchased by sending an email to bohoraa@yahoo.com."
Here is some background from the book's Introduction.-Editor
This book focuses on Hundis, which were a form of scrip used in India for quite a long time, used in princelystates of India.
One early seventeenth-century French traveler to India, Mr. J. B. Tavernier, writes:
In this country when anyone wishes to transfer money to a distant place, without undertaking therisk of journey and expenses of conveyance, he delivers the money to a financier. The latter giveshim a written paper, which is drawn on the place desired; and there the drawee hands over themoney upon sight of that handwritten paper. That document they all know by the name Hundi.
While collecting and researching Hundis, it becomes very clear that Indian bankers were using a variety ofinnovative financial and credit instruments to facilitate trade and the movement of large sums of moneyacross the subcontinent in a most secure and efficient manner, hundreds of years before the Western bankingsystem.
Because of their flexibility, their extensive use, and the variety of Indian languages that were used to draftthese Hundis, they have been little understood and always very confusing to the outside world.
In this book, I have tried to compile all the details about Hundis used in princely states of India in one place.
This was quite a challenge, as more than a century has gone by without producing much written informationabout Hundis. For detailed information about Hundis, refer to Catalog of Hundis Used in India
.
To download sample pages, see:
https://foxly.me/HundisPrincelyStates
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
NEW BOOK: CATALOG OF HUNDIS USED IN INDIA(https://www.coinbooks.org/v26/esylum_v26n15a07.html)
