Decentralized Forex and the East India Firm
In ideasofindia podcast, Shruti Rajagopalan and Shweta Banerjee discuss India’s monetary system before and after British control:
This episode is the seventh installment of a collection during which Shruti speaks with doctoral candidates and postdoctoral students about their analysis as they enter the job market and the world of academia. On this episode, Shruti talks with Shweta Banerjee about Indian foreign money earlier than the arrival of the East India Firm, how the corporate modified India’s financial system, demonetization, free banking and extra. Banerjee is a Vanier Doctoral Scholar on the College of Toronto. Her dissertation supplies a historic view of economic infrastructure in India from 1750 to 1947. She is excited by exploring finance as a website of contestation between early fashionable and fashionable states and financiers or bankers. Earlier than getting into her Ph.D. program, she spent a number of years on the World Financial institution engaged on monetary inclusion, digitization and rural livelihood packages in South Asia.
Very attention-grabbing dialogue.