Artha Vijnana: Journal of The Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics

V. D. Divekar

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The available official serial on prices in India covers the period beginning from the year 1761. This paper presents here price series for fifteen important commodities in Pune market for a hundred year period prior to 1861. The prices presented here are generally the wholesale prices.

The sources consulted are, mainly, the unpublished archival documents and accounts papers available in the Pune Archives, formerly known as the 'Peshwe Daftar'; supplemented with other government papers etc.

A great variety of weights and measures and currencies prevailed in the region during the period under study. For better comparability, the price statistics are presented here in a standardized form.

The scope of the paper is confined to the preparation and presentation of basic price series.

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V. D. Divekar

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From pre-historic times peoples of the Indian Ocean region have crossed the seas and established their settlements in distant lands. The settlers migrated as colonists, invaders, mercenaries, refugees, slaves and others. But the chief cause for their migrations, in the case of many of them, was economic in origin.

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V. D. Divekar

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During the first eighteen months of the Bibliography Project (April 1972-September 1973) about 9500 works have been annotated. They include: 1100 books, 3500 periodical articles, 950 British parliamentary papers, 900 committee reports, 60 serials, 200 census publications, 1700 selections from records, 800 acts and regulations and 100 gazetteers. The work on serials was suspended for some time due to non-availability of suitable persons. Recently that work has been taken up again. Annotation of gazetteers has been newly undertaken. Thus, except for the theses, the annotation work is now proceeding in all the sections of the Bibliography Project.

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V. D. Divekar

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THE Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Poona, has undertaken the preparation of a comprehensive annotated bibliography on the economic history of India. As has already been announced in the ArtHa Vijnana and several other learned periodicals, the bibliography will cover source material, as well as research work done, in various branches of Indian economic history for the period 1500 A.D. to 1947 A.D.

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V. D. Divekar

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The present paper is divided into two parts. Part I deals with different aspects of trading and transporting activities of the Marathas in the 17th-18th centuries in the Konkan region, and also their trading between coastal areas and Desh region of Maharashtra.

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