618 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Rupee (continued)—
Coinage additions : 532, 533, 536
Convertibility : 496
Cost of fall of, 1894-97:510
Depreciation, 1914-19: 524
East India Company’s rupee : 342,343
Economy of rupee currency : 606, 607
Gold payments, cost of, table : 416
Gold standard reserve and rupee circulation : 550
Gold, value, 1892-1922, tables : 508,
514,515,516,517
Imperial bimetallic: 469
Legal tender in United Kingdom : 470
Moghul Empire : 338, 339
Monthly fluctuations, chart: 442
Purchasing power : 517 et seq.
Rupee-sterling exchange, fall of: 399
Stability, general survey : 509
Standard of value : 571
Uniform coinage, 1833, table : 351
Weight, increasing : 469
Russell, H. B.: 377 note, 400 note Scone, Hon. Mr.: 386 note, 387 note Seignorage, levy of: 356 Shirras, Mr. : 520, 528 note, 564, 613 Silver: Bounties and the fall of: 434 et seq.
Cost of purchases, 1893-1920 : 552
Depreciation, attempts to prevent: 455,
456, 457, 458
Gold and silver, relative production and value : 403, et seq., 407
Indian Government purchases, 1915 20:536
Limited legal tender: 597
Price movements of: 511, 512, 523
Silver standard for India : East India Company’s decree: 342, 343
Evolution of: 353 et seq .
Demonetization of silver, effect of: 399 et seq .
Dislocation of parity of exchange,
1873:401 et seq .
General nature of: 378 et seq .
Instability : 415 et. seq .
Smith, Colonel J. T.: 447, 468 Smith Committee on Indian Currency,
1919 : 513, 514, 520, 563, 564, 577 Subedhar, Mr. : 576 Switzerland, bimetallic system : 355, 356 note Taussig, F. W.: 484 note Taxation, increases in : 415 et seq . Temple, Sir Richard: 384 note, 387 note,
395 note, 445, 446 Thackersay, Sir V.: 581, 585 Trade : Adverse balance and fall of exchange :
527, 528, 560
Agricultural exports : 430
Bounties and the fall of silver: 434 et. seq .
China and India, 1889-1908, table : 504
Cotton trade development: 428, 429,
432
Distribution of, tables : 432
Falling exchange, general effect of :
425 et seq .
Imports and exports, tables : 426, 427
India and U. K. before and after
Mint closure: 503
Jute industry development: 429, 430
Speculation caused by exchange fluctuations : 441
Treasury Notes, Indian, interest bearing :
366 Trevelyan, Sir Charles : 372, 374 note
United States, currency difficulties : 459,
467 Units of currency, tables : 344
Van Den Berg, Mr. : 387, 390 Vishram, Hon. Fazulbhai: 588 note
Walker, Prof. F. A. : 468 note Waterfield, Sir Henry : 510 note Wastland, Sir James : 589 Whitaker, A. C. : 484 note Wood, Sir Charles : 390 note, 395 note, 609