CONTENTS: List of Table Acknowledgements Introduction, 1. The Portuguese Bullion Trade in Seventeenth-Century Western India, 2. British Monetary Concerns and the Establishment of the Bombay Mint, c.1661–1710, 3. The Bombay Government and Merchants Engaged in Bullion Trade, c.1710–40, 4. Trade, Finance, and Politics in Mid-Eighteenth-Century Bombay, c.1740–80, 5. Bombay’s Bullion Trade with Europe, China, and Japan, c.1780–1820, 6. Bombay’s Emergence as the Financial Capital of India, from Bombay Mint to the Reserve Bank of India, c.1820–1935, Conclusion, Appendices, Glossary, Bibliography, Index.