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NEW BOOK: HUNDIS IN PRINCELY STATES OF INDIAAnil Bohora has published a new volume of his catalog detailing the Hundis scrip notes of India. -Editor Anil writes:
This book focuses on Hundis, which were a form of scrip used in India for quite a long time, used in princely states of India. A4 Size. 408 Color Pages. Printed on Art Paper. Price: US$60 + Shipping from India US$25 The book can be purchased by sending an email to bohoraa@yahoo.com." Here is some background from the book's Introduction. -Editor This book focuses on Hundis, which were a form of scrip used in India for quite a long time, used in princely states of India. One early seventeenth-century French traveler to India, Mr. J. B. Tavernier, writes: In this country when anyone wishes to transfer money to a distant place, without undertaking the risk of journey and expenses of conveyance, he delivers the money to a financier. The latter gives him a written paper, which is drawn on the place desired; and there the drawee hands over the money upon sight of that handwritten paper. That document they all know by the name Hundi. While collecting and researching Hundis, it becomes very clear that Indian bankers were using a variety of innovative financial and credit instruments to facilitate trade and the movement of large sums of money across the subcontinent in a most secure and efficient manner, hundreds of years before the Western banking system. 
Because of their flexibility, their extensive use, and the variety of Indian languages that were used to draft these Hundis, they have been little understood and always very confusing to the outside world. In this book, I have tried to compile all the details about Hundis used in princely states of India in one place.
This was quite a challenge, as more than a century has gone by without producing much written information
about Hundis. For detailed information about Hundis, refer to 
To download sample pages, see:
To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see:
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