John Bullion's Empire - Britain's Gold Problem and India Between the Wars (Broché)

John Bullion's Empire is a study of the impact of Britain's economic and financial crises on currency and monetary policy-making in interwar India. Based on an innovative wading of a wide range of archival sources, the book reconstructs colonial policies against the background of Anglo-American efforts to repair the interwar international financial system and Britain's struggle to restore sterling and the City of London to their former pre-eminence.
Bridging the gulf separating the financial history of interwar Europe from that of India, Britain's financial relations with the empire and those with the wider world, and finally that between finance and politics in the closing stages of the empire, John Bullion's Empire will be essential reading for international economic and financial historians, and for historians of India and the British Empire.
The book's discussion of interwar efforts to construct a liberal economic policy discourse for India, of which Keynes was a major protagonist, will also be of interest to historians of economic thought and policy.