Economic History of India

Essays

When Pepper gave Bharatavarsha a New Name: The Sink of Precious Metals

When Pepper gave Bharatavarsha a New Name: The Sink of Precious Metals

With pepper at the heart of its flourishing spice trade, India overflowed with coins and other precious metals from Rome earning it the moniker, "sink of precious metals."

The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World

The Bengal that was the Sprawling Economic Garden of the World

The first part of a series narrating the prosperous economic empire of Bengal roughly from the 14th up to the 18th Century