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Trade and commerce in the Mughal Empire brought about the integration of the Indian subcontinent into a single market. Comment.

  • UPSC 2022
  • Economy and Society in the 16th and 17th Centuries

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Under a single imperial political authority spanning most of the subcontinent, Mughal India developed the infrastructure, currency, and merchant networks of what looks, at first glance, like a genuinely unified market — though how far that integration actually ran needs careful qualification.

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  • Expansion of Internal Trade Networks
  • Flourishing External Commerce
  • Standardisation as an Integrating Mechanism
  • Infrastructural Investment Supporting Integration
  • The Limits of "A Single Market"
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