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010 _a2020-325200
020 _a9788195380534
100 _aShaikh, Bazil
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245 4 _aThe Conjuror's Trick- An Interpretive Hisotyr of Paper Money in India/
_cBazil Shaikh
260 _aIndia;
_bThe Marg Foundation;
_c2020
300 _a247p;
_c28x22cm
520 _aThis book traces the course of paper money in India, historicizing the changing symbolism on notes as well as the principles of notes issues. The first comprehensive documentation of India's free banking era, it walks the reader through how the competitive issue of money by private bankswas monopolized by the government and later by the central bank as money transitioned from the real to the symbolic and to the imaginary.
546 _aEnglish
650 _aHC10-1085 Economic history and conditions
650 _aPaper currency
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651 _aIndia
942 _cBK
999 _c4862
_d4862