Sources
Where every figure comes from
180 catalogued sources: statistical abstracts, commission reports, central-bank histories and digitised volumes, with the archive that holds each one.
How much weight a source carries
Every row in the paper names the kind of source it rests on and a grade: Verifiedchecked against the document, Reported taken from a secondary account,Estimated derived or approximate, and Unconfirmedwhere the source could not be opened.
- Official primaryIMF, World Bank, BIS, RBI, Ministry of Finance, Paris Club, UN, WTO, budgets, central-bank bulletins, parliamentary answers
- Peer-reviewed researchAcademic journals, monographs, NBER/CEPR working papers, doctoral theses
- Investigative / leaked recordsICIJ Offshore Leaks, Panama/Paradise/Pandora Papers, Wikileaks, Swiss Leaks, SEC and FEC filings
- Mainstream pressReuters, FT, The Economist, Economic Times, Business Standard, The Hindu, BBC
- Heterodox / non-mainstream institutionalEPW, Frontline, UNCTAD, Austrian and Marxist scholarship, non-mainstream think tanks
- Non-Western / state mediaXinhua, Global Times, Dawn, TASS, Gulf press, Al Jazeera, Nikkei
- Partisan or fringe (attributed, not verified)Partisan, state-propaganda or conspiracy-adjacent outlets. Recorded only when the sole source for a claim, always attributed in notes, never presented as fact.
The catalogue
CSV180 rows
| Held by | Access | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "East India Revenue Accounts", annual Indian Budget debate, House of Commons Headline net revenue, expenditure and surplus/deficit quoted by the Under-Secretary | UK Parliament | 1866 to 1919 | Historic Hansard (api.parliament.uk) | open |
| (Copy of) Indian Financial Statement / Financial Statement and Budget Budget; rate of exchange assumed | GoI Finance Member (UK Parliamentary Paper) | 1887 to 1922 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| A.K. Banerji, India's Balance of Payments: Estimates of Current and Capital Accounts from 1921-22 to 1938-39 The only full interwar BoP reconstruction | Asia Publishing House (1963) | 1921 to 1939 | Cambridge Core (review only) | physical only |
| Abhilekh Patal: Finance Department (Currency branch) proceedings none | National Archives of India | abhilekh-patal.in | open+login | |
| Accounts of the Trade carried by Rail and River in India / Inland Trade (Rail and River-borne) of India Movements between provinces and ports (port hinterland flows) | Govt of India / Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1890 to 1918 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Accounts relating to the Coasting Trade and Navigation of British India (monthly) Inter-port coasting trade by article | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1934 to 1942 | Gokhale Institute (GIPE) DSpace | open |
| Accounts relating to the Trade and Navigation of British India (monthly; bound annually) Monthly merchandise and treasure by article | Govt of India, Finance & Commerce Dept / Commercial Intelligence | 1876 to 1885 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory, DLI) | open |
| Administration Report on the Railways in India Goods tonnage by commodity; freight to ports | Railway Board | 1880 to 1936 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Administration Reports: Bombay Port Trust; Karachi Port Trust Port tonnage, vessels and cargo | Bombay / Karachi Port Trusts | 1909 to 1924 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Agricultural Statistics of (British) India Crop area incl. export crops; Vol II Native States | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1899 to 1936 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory, DLI) | open |
| All-India Income-Tax Report and Returns Assessees and demand by income class and province | Central Board of Revenue / Income-tax Dept | 1927 to 1931 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| An Account of the Presidency Banks (J.B. Brunyate, 1900) | Govt of India, Supt. Govt Printing, Calcutta | 1806 to 1899 | GIPE DSpace; Tamil Digital Library copy on IA | open |
| Annual Financial Statement (Budget) of the Government of Madras (also Civil Budget Estimates) Budget estimates | Government of Madras | 1896 to 1941 | Internet Archive (Tamil Digital Library) | open |
| Annual Report of the Deputy Master and Comptroller of the Royal Mint Imperial and colonial coinage (Indian content assumed, not checked) | Royal Mint (UK) | 1870 to 1904 | HathiTrust (Harvard, Columbia); Internet Archive | open |
| Annual Report of the Indian Central Cotton Committee, Bombay Raw cotton output and export statistics | Indian Central Cotton Committee | 1928 to 1937 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory, DLI) | open |
| Annual Report on the Working of Co-operative Societies in H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions | Hyderabad State Co-operative Dept | 1931 to 1939 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Annual Statement of the Sea-borne Trade (and Navigation) of British India with the British Empire and Foreign Countries Commodity × country × port quantity and value tables; treasure (gold/silver) imports and exports, private vs Govt | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics, later Dept of Statistics (Calcutta) | 1903 to 1939 | Internet Archive (Univ. of Illinois scans; IndiaHistory; DLI) | open |
| Annual Statement of the Sea-borne Trade and Navigation of the Bengal Presidency (Calcutta, Chittagong, Orissa ports) Jute, tea, rice, and hides exports via Calcutta | Bengal Customs / Govt of Bengal | 1890 to 1923 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Annual Statement of the Sea-borne Trade of British India… (GIPE copies) Vol I imports/exports by article and country | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1916 to 1939 | Gokhale Institute (GIPE) DSpace | open |
| Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of British India with Foreign Countries and of the Coasting Trade of the Several Presidencies and Provinces Imports & exports of merchandise and treasure by article, country and port; shipping entered/cleared | Govt of India, Finance & Commerce Dept (Calcutta) | 1875 to 1897 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory collection) | open |
| Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Presidency of Bombay / Report on the Sea-borne Trade and Customs Administration of the Bombay Presidency Bombay port trade; customs collections; cotton excise | Bombay Customs Dept | 1869 to 1938 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Annual Statement of the Trade and Navigation of the Province of Sind / Report on the Maritime Trade of Sind (Karachi) Karachi wheat, cotton and oilseed exports | Govt of Bombay / Sind Customs (Karachi) | 1875 to 1938 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| B.R. Mitchell, International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania Long continuous India series: total imports/exports; trade with UK; main commodity export quantities | Palgrave Macmillan | 1750 to 1993 | SpringerLink; Internet Archive (lending) | subscription |
| Banking and Monetary Statistics 1914–1941 Table 173 "Foreign exchange rates, by countries, monthly", British India, p.664 | Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (1943) | 1916 to 1941 | FRASER (St. Louis Fed) | open |
| Banking and Monetary Statistics of India Sec.7: T3 notes in circulation monthly Mar 1862–Mar 1953; T13 absorption of currency 1861-62–1952-53; T16 Gold Standard Reserve 1901–1936; T18 rupees coined 1836–1952; T25 money supply monthly Jul 1935–Dec 1952. Sec.8 T2 Bank of Bengal rate 1874–1920. Sec.9: T1 Council Bills 1834-35–1924-25; T13 Council Bill exchange rates monthly Apr 1880–Feb 1920; T14 exchange rates 1945-46 on. Sec.10 T1 central receipts/disbursements 1871-72 on. Sec.12 gold/silver trade | Reserve Bank of India, Bombay (1954) | 1820 to 1953 | Internet Archive (Digital Library of India; LBSNAA copy) | open |
| Baroda Administration Report (annual) 1904-05 report: British Indian currency introduced in 1900, conversion of Babashai rupees | Baroda State | 1879 to 1942 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Baroda Administration Report; Administration of the Gwalior State; J&K Administration Report Finance chapters (not checked) | Baroda / Gwalior / Jammu & Kashmir Darbars | 1875 to 1945 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Bikaner Banking Enquiry Committee (1930) | Bikaner State (princely) | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| British Library India Office Records, banking files: IOR/L/F/7 Collection 24 "Banks and Banking"; IOR/L/F/7/241 Imperial Bank half-yearly reports of Directors 1943–49; IOR/V/27/331/3 "Some statistics relating to Presidency banks" (1915); IOR/L/E/8/8654 Imperial Bank proposed nationalisation 1947–48 45 catalogue hits for "Imperial Bank of India" and 23 for "Presidency Banks" | India Office | 1899 to 1950 | British Library (catalogue only) | physical only |
| Budget of the Government of India / "East India (Budget)" return, incl. Explanatory Memorandum Budget estimates by head; explanatory memorandum | GoI Finance Dept; HMSO | 1913 to 1932 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| CEPII TRADHIST India bilateral trade and exchange rates | M. Fouquin & J. Hugot (CEPII) | 1827 to 2014 | CEPII | open+login |
| Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol. 2 (Kumar & Desai eds, 1983) Public-finance chapter (tables not checked) | Cambridge University Press | 1757 to 1970 | Cambridge Core; user upload on IA | subscription |
| Caste and Capitalism in Colonial India: The Nattukottai Chettiars (D.W. Rudner, UC Press 1994) App. A interest-rate tables; App. B sample hundis | University of California Press | 1930 | UC Press E-Books Collection (open) | open |
| Clio Infra: Exchange Rates to UK Pound Rupee–sterling rate for converting trade values | IISH (Bosch & van den Bos, after Denzel) | Clio Infra | open | |
| Combined Finance and Revenue Accounts of the Central and Provincial Governments in India Combined receipts and expenditure by government; debt heads | GoI / Auditor-General of India | 1939 to 1949 | Internet Archive (Digital Library of India) | open |
| Committee on Indian Exchange and Currency (Babington Smith): Report and Appendices App. I "Statement of Case" by M.M.S. Gubbay (Controller of Currency) with Statement I; App. XIII chamber of commerce letters; App. XV–XVII India Office memoranda | Committee appointed by the Secretary of State for India (HMSO, 1920) | 1919 | Internet Archive (CSL / DLI) | open |
| Council of State Debates Budget debates | Indian Legislature | 1925 to 1943 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| D.H.N. Gurtoo, India's Balance of Payments, 1920–1960 Annual BoP estimates bridging 1920 to 1960 | S. Chand (1961) | 1920 to 1960 | Internet Archive (controlled lending) | open+login |
| Debt-to-GDP ratios, F–M workbook, India sheet (Reinhart & Rogoff) India sheet | Reinhart & Rogoff | 1835 to 2010 | carmenreinhart.com | open |
| East India (Indian States): Report of the Indian States Committee, 1928–1929 (Butler) Financial-relations section | Indian States Committee (HMSO) | 1929 | Internet Archive (UBC Library) | open |
| East India (Statistical abstract): Statistical abstract relating to British India Mint coinage; paper currency; Council Bills; bullion trade | India Office (UK Parliamentary Papers) | 1856 to 1920 | HathiTrust (Michigan, Minnesota copies) | open |
| Estimates of Area and Yield of Principal Crops in India Output series for export crops | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1913 to 1939 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Exchange Rates to US Dollar | Clio Infra (IISG); sources: Denzel, Handbook of World Exchange Rates 1590–1914; Schneider et al., Währungen der Welt; IMF IFS | 1789 to 2013 | clio-infra.eu (+ Dataverse) | open |
| Exchange rates between the US dollar and 41 currencies; dollar–pound rate from 1791 India table | L.H. Officer / MeasuringWorth | 1916 to 1948 | measuringworth.com | open |
| Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database: Asia Harmonised India total trade | G. Federico & A. Tena Junguito | 1800 to 1938 | e-cienciaDatos (Consorcio Madroño) | open |
| Finance and Revenue Accounts of the Government of India Mint and currency heads; exchange | GoI Finance Dept | 1882 to 1920 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory; WBSL) | open |
| Finance and Revenue Accounts of the Government of India Revenue and expenditure by head; debt, deposit and remittance heads; Home vs India accounts | GoI Finance (and Commerce) Dept, Calcutta/Delhi | 1869 to 1924 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory/JaiGyan; West Bengal State Library "wbsl" scans) | open |
| Financial Statement [and Budget] of the Government of India, with discussions in the Legislative Council (UK reprint: "East India (Financial Statement)") Financial statement tables; Finance Member's budget speech; council debate | GoI Finance Dept; HMSO reprint | 1869 to 1922 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory, wbsl) | open |
| Global Price and Income History: India files (Allen & Studer 1595–1930; Jacks wheat/rice 1861–1921; Mukerjee North India 1600–1938; Bombay cost of living 1921–40) Prices for deflating trade values (e.g. Jacks, wheat and rice 1861–1921) | GPIH Group, UC Davis | 1595 to 1940 | gpih.ucdavis.edu | open |
| Government of Bombay, Civil Budget Estimate (Provincial) Provincial budget estimates by head | Government of Bombay | 1932 to 1937 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Grindlays Bank Ltd records (ref. GRI), incl. annual reports & balance sheets 1936–48 | Grindlays & Co. / National Bank of India | 1923 to 1948 | NatWest Group Heritage Hub | physical only |
| H.E.H. the Nizam's Government: Detailed Budget; Finance Accounts and Audit Report; Administration Reports Detailed budget (1930); Finance Accounts 1352 Fasli (≈1942-43) | H.E.H. the Nizam's Government | 1944 | Internet Archive (DLI / State Central Library Hyderabad) | open |
| HSBC Global Archives, Mercantile Bank of India collection (and HSBC India records) Online subcollections are buildings/staff/magazines. No annual reports or balance sheets are listed | Mercantile Bank of India / HSBC | 1853 to 1984 | HSBC History website (catalogue) | physical only |
| Hansard: "India (Sterling Balances)", 15 Jul 1948; Bank of England OV56 and TNA T 236 files on Indian sterling balances Hansard statement citing Cmd. 7195 (1947 agreement); BoE OV56/55 note (15 Jan 1947) | UK Parliament; Bank of England; HM Treasury | 1939 to 1953 | Historic Hansard (open); BoE and TNA archives (physical) | physical only |
| Historic Hansard debates on Indian currency e.g. 12 Nov 1912 "Money Values (India)": GSR depreciation £932,759 to £1,064,824 | UK Parliament | 1893 to 1927 | api.parliament.uk | open |
| History of the Reserve Bank of India, Vol. 1 (1935–51) Appendix "Statistical Tables" (separate PDF); Ch. 2 "Currency, Exchange and Banking Prior to 1935" | Reserve Bank of India (1970) | 1935 to 1951 | rbi.org.in (chapter PDFs) | open |
| Home Accounts of the Government of India (East India (Home Accounts); earlier "Account of the Receipts and Disbursements of the Home Treasury") Home Charges by head; Council Bills and Telegraphic Transfers drawn; sterling debt and interest; stores purchased | India Office / House of Commons (HMSO) | 1870 to 1936 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Home Accounts of the Government of India (sterling transactions, Council Bills drawn) Home Charges by item (stores, pensions, interest, railway annuities); sterling debt; India stock; Council bills and remittances | India Office, London | 1870 to 1936 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| IOR/L/F/7/205 Bills and Telegraphic Transfers: conditions governing Council bills none | India Office, Financial Dept | 1922 to 1924 | British Library (catalogue) | physical only |
| Imperial Economic Conference, Ottawa 1932: Report of the Indian Delegation; and the 1935 Supplementary Agreement (UK–India) Preference margins; trade with UK in preferred goods | Govt of India / HMSO | 1935 | Internet Archive (DLI; IndiaHistory) | open |
| Imperial Gazetteer of India (new ed.), Vol. IV: Administrative (ch. VI Finance; VII Land Revenue; VIII Miscellaneous Revenue; III Native States) Revenue and expenditure tables (years roughly to 1901–04, not checked) | Secretary of State for India (Clarendon Press, 1907–09) | 1880 to 1904 | DSAL | open |
| Index Numbers of Indian Prices, 1861–1918 T I summary index numbers; T III retail food-grain index; T V average prices; T VI article indices; T VIII gold prices, India vs foreign, 1890–1918; T IX Bombay bar silver and exchange 1873-74–1918-19; App. C weighted index | Dept of Statistics, India (Calcutta, 1919) | 1861 to 1918 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory / JaiGyan) | open |
| Index Numbers of Indian Prices, 1861–1931 (3rd issue) not extracted | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (Delhi, 1933) | 1861 to 1931 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| India Office Financial Dept files on Currency and the Gold Standard Reserve (IOR/L/F/7/453–475; L/F/5/1) and Accountant General guard books, Gold Reserve Fund / GSR (IOR/L/AG/37/1) L/F/7/454 monthly investment statements 1912–16; L/F/7/462 published balance statements Apr 1918–Jun 1921; L/F/7/473 valuation method 1929–34 | India Office, Financial Dept / Accountant General | 1900 to 1935 | British Library (catalogue) | physical only |
| India Office Records IOR/L/AG, Accountant General's records Accounts ledgers; India stock and loan registers | India Office / British Library | 1601 to 1974 | BL Archives & Manuscripts Catalogue | physical only |
| India Office Records IOR/L/F, Financial Department records Budget, debt and Home Charges files | India Office / British Library | 1800 to 1948 | BL Archives & Manuscripts Catalogue | physical only |
| India Posts and Telegraphs Department Annual Report P&T receipts and expenditure | Posts & Telegraphs Dept | 1931 to 1940 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| India's Contribution to the Great War War finance and loans (whether it tabulates the 1917 £100m contribution is not checked) | GoI (Supt. Govt Printing, Calcutta, 1923) | 1914 to 1919 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Indian Central Banking Enquiry Committee 1931, Vol. I Part I: Majority Report (incl. App. I, Report of the Foreign Banking Experts) Majority report chapters on indigenous bankers, co-operative banks, joint-stock banks and bank failures; App. I foreign experts (Trip, Jeidels, Cassels et al.) | Govt of India, Central Publication Branch, Calcutta | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI); GIPE DSpace (2nd ed.) | open |
| Indian Central Banking Enquiry Committee 1931: Vol. II Written Evidence; Vol. III Oral Evidence; Vol. IV Discussion with Foreign Experts Written memoranda from banks and associations; oral evidence; Vol. IV discussions (1932) | Govt of India, Calcutta | 1931 | Internet Archive (India history resource; DLI duplicates) | open |
| Indian Currency Committee 1898 (Fowler): Index and Appendices to the Evidence App. II "Financial and Statistical Tables": 1–3 trade 1850-51–1898-99; 5 net gold/silver imports 1887-88–1898-99; 6 exchange on bills/telegraphic transfers 1850-51–1898-99; 9–11 Home charges, sterling debt; 12 silver price, exchange, surplus/deficit 1872-73–1898-99; 14 Bank of Bengal rate half-yearly 1854–98; 17–18 Bombay bar silver/gold prices; 19 silver coinage 1850-51–1898-99; 30–37 food-grain prices since 1861; 39–46 wages; 47 revenue and expenditure 1873-74–1898-99 | Indian Currency Committee (HMSO, 1899) | 1850 to 1899 | Internet Archive (Central Secretariat Library) | open |
| Indian Currency Committee 1898 (Fowler): Report (1899) + Minutes of Evidence (1898) Evidence and appendices on Home Charges and exchange | Indian Currency Committee (HMSO) | 1898 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Indian Financial Enquiry Report (Niemeyer, 1936) Allocation that underlies the Government of India (Distribution of Revenues) Order 1936 | Sir Otto Niemeyer / GoI Manager of Publications | 1936 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Indigenous Banking in India (L.C. Jain, 1929) | Macmillan | 1929 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Indigenous Indian Banking (M.M.S. Gubbay, paper to the Royal Society of Arts, 1928) | Royal Society of Arts | 1928 | Internet Archive (CSL) | open |
| International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania 1750–1993 (3rd ed.) Central government finance section (table numbers not checked) | B.R. Mitchell (Macmillan, 1998) | 1750 to 1993 | Internet Archive (controlled lending) | open+login |
| Joint Stock Banking in India (D.S. Savkar, 1938) | 1937 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open | |
| Joint Stock Companies in British India (and in the Indian States), annual 1937-38 issue: company-level information for "most of the banking and insurance companies" (OCR has about 300 hits for "banking") | Dept. of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1938 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| K.N. Chaudhuri, "Foreign Trade and Balance of Payments (1757–1947)", ch. X in Cambridge Economic History of India vol. 2 Statistical tables of trade, treasure and BoP components (pp. 804–877) | Cambridge University Press (1983) | 1757 to 1947 | Cambridge Core | subscription |
| Keynes, Indian Currency and Finance (1913); Jevons, Money, Banking and Exchange in India (1922); Ambedkar, The Problem of the Rupee (1923); Dadachanji, History of Indian Currency and Exchange (1928) Appendix tables not checked | individual authors | 1800 to 1928 | Internet Archive; Project Gutenberg | open |
| League of Nations, Balances of Payments (annual; incl. India) India's officially reported BoP in a standardised format | League of Nations Economic Intelligence Service | 1938 | Google Books (snippet) | physical only |
| Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), incl. Finance Member's budget speeches and Finance Bill debates Budget speech with revised/budget figures | Indian Legislature | 1921 to 1935 | Internet Archive (mirror of Parliament of India eparlib) | open |
| Legislative committee reports: Imperial Bank of India Bill (Select Cttee 1924; Joint Cttee 1927; Joint Cttee 1933); Gold Standard & RBI Bill (1927); RBI Bill Joint Committee (1933) | Indian Legislative Assembly (Lok Sabha Digital Library) | 1920 to 1934 | Internet Archive (eparlib mirror) | open |
| Maddison Project Database 2023 GDP and population denominators for trade/GDP ratios | Groningen Growth & Development Centre | 1 to 2022 | Univ. of Groningen | open |
| Maddison Project Database 2023 GDP per capita, population | GGDC, University of Groningen | 1884 to 2022 | rug.nl / DataverseNL | open |
| Madras Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee 1929–30, Vols I–III + Reports of Investigators Vol. III (evidence) contains "Monograph on a Marwari banker", "Monograph on Multani banker" and much Nattukottai Chetti evidence (all confirmed in OCR); investigators' village surveys | Govt of Madras / Govt of India, Central Publication Branch | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Memoranda on the Indian States (corrected to 1 January each year) Per-state revenue and tribute entries | GoI Foreign & Political Dept | 1921 to 1940 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Monthly Statistics of Cotton Spinning and Weaving in Indian Mills Mill output, the domestic side of the piece-goods substitution story | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1933 to 1933 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| National Income of India in the Twentieth Century (OUP 2000); IESHR 34(2), 1997 NDP series (table numbers not checked) | S. Sivasubramonian | 1900 to 1947 | SAGE (IESHR); print | subscription |
| Operations of the Reserve Bank of India, 1935–1954 , (contents not inspected) | Reserve Bank of India (1960) | 1935 to 1954 | HathiTrust | open |
| Other provincial banking enquiries 1929–30: Central Provinces, Bihar & Orissa, Assam, Burma, Centrally Administered Areas (Ajmer-Merwara, Delhi, NWFP etc.) CP: in.ernet.dli.2015.48750, dli.ministry.19954; B&O: dli.ministry.10263; Assam: in.ernet.dli.2015.36188; Burma: report-of-the-burma-provincial-banking-enquiry-committee-1929-30-vol-1; CAA: in.ernet.dli.2015.274864, dli.csl.2483 | Provincial govts / Govt of India | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Our Sterling Balances Contemporary estimates of sterling-balance build-up | C.N. Vakil (Bombay, 1947) | 1939 to 1947 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Poverty and Un-British Rule in India Drain estimates built from Home Charges and trade surplus | Dadabhai Naoroji (Swan Sonnenschein, London) | 1901 | Internet Archive (Cornell copy) | open |
| Prices and Wages in India (annual) not extracted | Dept of Statistics / DCIS, India | 1861 to 1923 | Internet Archive | open |
| Provincial Paper Currency Department reports: Madras, Bombay & Karachi, Cawnpore, Punjab (Lahore), Burma Circle note issue and encashment | Provincial currency offices, GoI | 1911 to 1920 | British Library IOR (V/24/3463–3468) | physical only |
| Provincial Registrars' annual reports on the working of co-operative societies (sampled: Punjab 1911-12; CP & Berar 1908-09; Bengal 1943–46; Ajmer-Merwara 1935) Standard statements A–D (no., members, working capital, loans), structure assumed, not verified | Provincial Registrars of Co-operative Societies | 1908 to 1946 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Public Finances in Modern History database (Mauro et al., IMF FAD) Indicator d (gross debt, 143 observations from 1861; e.g. 1880 18.1%, 1913 25.6%, 1939 42.7%, 1946 40.5%); also rev and ie | International Monetary Fund | 1861 to 2024 | IMF DataMapper API | open |
| Punjab Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee 1929–30 (report + evidence) Report; Evidence Vol. I (dli.ernet.523790) | Govt of Punjab | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| RBI, India's Balance of Payments 1948-49 to 1961-62 Post-1947 continuation | Reserve Bank of India | 1948 to 1962 | Stanford SearchWorks (catalogue) | physical only |
| RICardo dataset 2017.12 (bilateral trade flows) India bilateral trade by partner (incl. UK share) | B. Dedinger & P. Girard, Sciences Po | 1787 to 1938 | Zenodo | open |
| Report by the Railway Board on Indian Railways (Vol. I; Vol. II statistics) Railway finance statements | Railway Board | 1904 to 1944 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory; DLI) | open |
| Report of the Administration of Mysore Finance and revenue sections (not checked) | Government of Mysore | 1869 to 1951 | Internet Archive (Karnataka State Archives; DLI; WBSL) | open |
| Report of the Army in India Committee, 1919–20 (Esher) Military expenditure (not checked) | Army in India Committee | 1920 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Bengal Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee 1929–30 Bengal "loan offices" (a distinctive type of small joint-stock bank) | Govt of Bengal | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Bombay Provincial Banking Enquiry Committee 1929–30 Shroff/hundi evidence | Govt of Bombay | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI/CSL) | open |
| Report of the Chief Inspector of Mines in India Coal output, which complements the trade coal tables | Chief Inspector of Mines | 1908 to 1937 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory, DLI) | open |
| Report of the Committee appointed to inquire into the Indian Currency, with evidence and appendices (Herschell) App. I GoI–Secretary of State correspondence 1892; App. II "General Information and Statistics" (price tables III–IX by five-year period, summarised in Table X); App. III letters | Indian Currency Committee 1892–93 (HMSO, 1893) | 1873 to 1892 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory / JaiGyan) | open |
| Report of the Committee on Co-operation in India (Maclagan Committee), 1915 | Govt of India, Simla | 1904 to 1915 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Committee … on the Financial Relations between the Central and Provincial Governments in India (Meston) "Meston Award" schedule of provincial contributions | Meston Committee (HMSO, 1920) | 1919 to 1921 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Controller of Currency (India, Currency Dept), 1890/91–1934/35; earlier Report on the operations of the Currency Department, 1876/77–1879/80 Note circulation; reserve composition; circle-level issue | GoI Finance Dept, Controller of Currency | 1876 to 1935 | British Library, India Office Records (IOR/V/24) | physical only |
| Report of the Federal Finance Committee, 1932 (Round Table Conference; Percy) Estimates of the federal/provincial revenue split | Federal Finance Committee | 1932 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Garran Tribunal on defence expenditure (India) Capitation charges and the UK contribution | Garran Tribunal (UK/India) | 1933 | UK National Archives | physical only |
| Report of the Indian Famine Commission (1880; Strachey) Famine-relief cost statements; origin of the Famine Insurance Grant (not checked) | Famine Commission | 1879 | Internet Archive | open |
| Report of the Indian Famine Commission, 1898 (Lyall) Relief expenditure by province (not checked) | Famine Commission | 1896 to 1897 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Indian Famine Commission, 1901 (MacDonnell) Relief cost tables (not checked) | Famine Commission | 1899 to 1900 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Indian Fiscal Commission 1921-22 Customs revenue history; tariff schedule analysis | Indian Fiscal Commission (Govt Central Press, Simla) | 1922 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Indian Industrial Commission, 1916-18 Industrial and import statistics in appendices | Indian Industrial Commission (HMSO) | 1918 | Internet Archive (Cornell) | open |
| Report of the Indian Retrenchment Committee, 1922–23 (Inchcape) Proposed cuts by department incl. the Army | Retrenchment Committee | 1921 to 1923 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Indian States Enquiry Committee (Financial), 1932 (Davidson) Per-state cash contributions, tributes, inter-state tributes, valuation of ceded territories | Indian States Enquiry Committee (Financial) | 1932 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Indian Statutory Commission, Vol. 2 (Part VIII: "Indian Finance – Mr. Layton's Report") "Balance Sheet of India's Finances"; appendix on the financial side of separating Burma | Indian Statutory Commission / W.T. Layton (1930) | 1930 | Internet Archive | open |
| Report of the Indian Tariff Board (Cotton Textile Industry Enquiry), 1927 Piece-goods imports by origin; mill production; duty rates | Indian Tariff Board | 1927 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory); also GIPE | open |
| Report of the Indian Tariff Board regarding the Grant of Protection to the Steel Industry Steel import volumes/prices; proposed duties | Indian Tariff Board | 1924 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Report of the Indian Taxation Enquiry Committee, 1924–25 (Todhunter) Tax incidence, and history of each tax (incl. income tax 1860/1886/1918/1922) | Taxation Enquiry Committee (Calcutta, 1926) | 1925 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Millowners' Association, Bombay Industry statistics; import and duty data | Bombay Millowners' Association | 1909 to 1938 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Report of the Royal Commission on the Superior Civil Services in India, 1924 (Lee) Service cost estimates | Royal Commission (HMSO) | 1924 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Royal Commission upon Decentralization in India, Vol. I Provincial finance chapter (not checked) | Royal Commission (HMSO, 1909) | 1909 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report of the Special Committee … on the economic and financial relations between British India and Indian States (Nind) Shared revenues and states' share of customs and salt (not checked) | GoI Foreign & Political Dept (1930) | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report on Currency and Finance (RBI), from 1935-36 Statistical statements on scheduled banks, money, rates | Reserve Bank of India | 1935 to 1947 | rbi.org.in; Internet Archive (1943-44) | open |
| Report on Currency and Finance: RBI publications archive not seen | Reserve Bank of India | 1935 to 1947 | rbi.org.in | open |
| Report on the Administration of H.E.H. the Nizam's Dominions (annual, by Fasli year) 1348F (1938-39) Ch. VIII: (b) Mint, (c) Paper Currency, notes of O.S. Rs 5/10/100/1000 in circulation, Paper Currency Reserve O.S. Rs 15,25,02,690. 1322F (1912-13): silver, copper and gold coinage; mint stock | Government of Hyderabad | 1912 to 1939 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report on the Administration of the Northern India Salt Revenue Department Salt revenue, duty rates, consumption | Northern India Salt Revenue Dept | 1893 to 1913 | Internet Archive (DLI; IndiaHistory) | open |
| Report on the External Trade of Bengal with Nepal, Tibet, Sikkim and Bhutan Frontier trade by route and article | Govt of Bengal | 1890 to 1899 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Report on the Operations of the Currency Department (Controller of the Currency) GSR composition; net imports of gold and silver | Controller of the Currency, Govt of India | 1920 to 1921 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Report on the Transfrontier Trade in Burma and the adjoining Foreign Countries Trans-frontier trade by route | Govt of Burma (Rangoon) | 1910 to 1919 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Reports of the Currency Committees: Herschell 1893, Fowler 1898, Chamberlain 1914, Babington Smith 1919 (compiled 1928) Report texts only, probably without appendices | Gokhale Institute (GIPE) library compilation | 1893 to 1919 | GIPE DSpace | open |
| Reserve Bank of India, Report of the Central Board of Directors (Annual Report), 1935– Annual Report archive (1936–1999 block); the History Cell digitised all reports 1935–1981 | Reserve Bank of India | 1935 to 1947 | rbi.org.in | open |
| Return of the Net Income and Expenditure of British India, under certain specified heads, for the eleven years [1900-01 to 1910-11] Net income and expenditure by head, 11 years | India Office (HMSO parliamentary return) | 1900 to 1911 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Return showing the Estimated Position as regards Capital Expenditure of the several Railways and Irrigation Works in India Capital outlay by railway and irrigation work | India Office (HMSO) | 1907 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Review of the Account of the Trade and Navigation of India for 1874-75, as compared with previous years Comparative totals leading into 1875 | Govt of India, Finance & Commerce Dept | 1870 to 1875 | Gokhale Institute (GIPE) DSpace | open |
| Review of the Co-operative Movement in India, 1939–46 | Reserve Bank of India (Agricultural Credit Dept), 1948 | 1939 to 1946 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Review of the Sea-borne Trade of the Madras Presidency / Annual Volume of the Sea-borne Trade and Navigation of the Madras Presidency Groundnut, hides and cotton exports | Madras Customs / Govt of Madras | 1911 to 1918 | Internet Archive (Tamil Virtual Academy) | open |
| Review of the Trade of India Summary tables: total trade 5-yr comparisons; balance of trade incl. treasure and Council Bills; commodity chapters (cotton, jute, tea, wheat, rice, oilseeds) | Director-General of Commercial Intelligence / Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1884 to 1940 | Gokhale Institute (GIPE) DSpace | open |
| Review of the Trade of India (bound volumes) as above; wartime issues | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1889 to 1944 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Royal Commission on Agriculture in India: Report (Linlithgow) Irrigation finance and land revenue (not checked) | Royal Commission | 1927 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Royal Commission on Indian Currency and Finance (Hilton Young): Appendices Vols II and III Vol II App. 11: A seasonal absorption of rupees and notes 1912-13–1924-25; B sovereign absorption from 1909-10; C net government gold/silver imports 1909-10–1924-25; E silver imports (fine oz); App. 3 McWatters' history of the currency; App. 8 profit on the note issue. Vol III App. 68–99 India Office memoranda | Royal Commission (HMSO, 1926) | 1909 to 1926 | Internet Archive (RAS Bombay; DLI Banasthali) | open |
| Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency (Chamberlain Commission), Final Report + Appendices GSR accounts; Council drawings; trade balance statements | Royal Commission (HMSO) | 1913 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Royal Commission on Indian Finance and Currency (Chamberlain): Appendices; Minutes of Evidence; Final Report App. I Government balances and Reserve Treasuries (Statements B, C); App. II Statement I discount rates; summary of the proposal for a Royal Mint branch at Bombay to coin sovereigns (1899–1902, 1912; cites Parl. Paper 495 of 1913) | Royal Commission (HMSO, 1913–14) | 1913 | Internet Archive (RAS Bombay, Cornell and CSL copies) | open |
| Royal Commission on Opium (First Report with Minutes of Evidence; Vol VI Final Report) Opium export and revenue tables; Malwa opium in the princely states | Royal Commission (HMSO) | 1894 | Internet Archive (Cornell; IndiaHistory) | open |
| Royal Commission on the Administration of the Expenditure of India (Welby): First Report + Minutes of Evidence Vol. I (1896); Evidence Vol. III (1900) Evidence and appendices on apportioning charges and on Home Charges | Royal Commission (HMSO) | 1900 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Royal Commission on the recent changes in the relative values of the precious metals: First/Second Reports (1887) and Final Report (1888) Final Report: App. IX–XI UK gold/silver movements and bullion; App. XII France; App. XIII British India; App. XIV "Statistics of prices and wages in India" | Royal Commission on Gold and Silver (HMSO) | 1888 | Internet Archive (Cornell University Library) | open |
| Royal Mint: Branch Mints (MINT 17), incl. MINT 17/199 on the proposed Bombay branch for coining sovereigns (1899–1900); MINT 20/611 gold 15-mohur pieces (1918); MINT 20/626 Bombay specimen sovereigns (1918–19) none | Royal Mint | 1899 to 1919 | UK National Archives (beta catalogue) | physical only |
| Sixty Years of Indian Finance Revenue, expenditure, debt and settlement tables | K.T. Shah (1921; 2nd ed. 1927) | 1860 to 1921 | Internet Archive (Univ. of Toronto scan) | open |
| Standard Chartered Bank archive, incl. Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China (CLC/B/207; branch series CH07) and National Bank of India (CLC/B/207/NB01) CH07: "comprehensive series of half yearly balance sheets from branches"; NB01: National Bank of India directors' records 1903–27 | Standard Chartered / predecessors | 1853 to 1975 | The London Archives (ex-LMA / Guildhall), catalogue via AIM25 | physical only |
| State Bank of India Archives & Museum, Kolkata, Banks of Calcutta/Bengal, Bombay, Madras & Imperial Bank of India records 25,000+ records | State Bank of India | 1806 to 1955 | SBI (physical archive) | physical only |
| Statement exhibiting the Moral and Material Progress and Condition of India Currency and finance chapter (narrative with figures) | India Office (UK Parliamentary Paper) | 1859 to 1935 | HathiTrust; Internet Archive | open |
| Statements showing progress of the Co-operative Movement in India, 1918-19 to 1923 (bound) Province-level tables | Govt of India (Calcutta) | 1918 to 1923 | Internet Archive (India history resource) | open |
| Statistical Abstract for British India (banking tables within) 1929-30–1938-39 issue: bank tables and "Banking and Loan" company class (confirmed in OCR) | Dept. of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (earlier India Office) | 1875 to 1939 | Internet Archive | open |
| Statistical Abstract relating to British India (London, Parliamentary series), continued as Statistical Abstract for British India (Delhi, DCIS) Coinage at Calcutta and Bombay mints; currency notes and reserve; Secretary of State's bills; gold/silver imports; prices (see dsal-stat-abstract for exact table numbers in two issues) | India Office; later Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1865 to 1941 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory / DLI collections) | open |
| Statistical Abstract relating to British India, numbers 1, 4, 12, 21, 30, 39, 48, 55 (page images + Excel) e.g. 1860s set, nos. 7–11: revenue and expenditure, provincial revenue, principal revenue sources, cash balances, public debt | India Office; digitised by Digital South Asia Library, Univ. of Chicago | 1840 to 1920 | DSAL (Chicago) | open |
| Statistical Tables relating to Banks in India and Burma, 1941 Bank-by-bank tables: "Central Bank of India" appears 136 times and "Punjab National" 74 times in the OCR | Reserve Bank of India | 1941 to 1941 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| Statistical Tables relating to Banks in India and Pakistan for the year 1947 Bank-level tables: "Central Bank of India" appears 352 times and "Punjab National" 239 times in the OCR; T10 exchange banks' liabilities & assets | Reserve Bank of India, Bombay | 1947 to 1947 | Internet Archive (Universal Library, Osmania) | open |
| Statistical Tables relating to Banks in India, with an Introductory Memorandum (issues 1915–1926, bound together) Summary T1–3 (Presidency, exchange, Indian JSBs with paid-up capital + reserve ≥ Rs 5 lakh); T4 cash-to-deposit ratios; T5–6 & T12 bank failures since Sept 1913 by month and province, bank by bank; T13 series 1870–1916; T17 "complete list" of failed banks with capital & deposits; T18 capital, reserves, deposits and cash of named smaller banks; maps of bank branches 1915, 1917 | Dept. of Statistics / Commercial Intelligence Dept., Govt of India | 1870 to 1926 | Internet Archive (India history resource) | open |
| Statistical abstract for British India, with statistics, where available, relating to certain Indian States Currency/coinage; banking | GoI Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics | 1911 to 1936 | HathiTrust | open (to 1930/31); search-only after |
| Statistical tables relating to banks in India (serial) Serial record; one full-view volume (uc1.c093543156, 1914/15–1919) | Dept. of Statistics (1914–20); Commercial Intelligence Dept (1921–23); Dept. of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (1924–28); RBI (1939/40 →) | 1914 to 1919 | HathiTrust | open |
| Statistics compiled from the Finance and Revenue Accounts of the Government of India (receipts and disbursements, Home and Indian accounts) Parts I–III: accounts; provincial figures; revenue-administration statistics | GoI Finance Dept | 1864 to 1920 | Internet Archive | open |
| Statistics of British India, Part II: Commercial (foreign trade and shipping, joint-stock companies, banks) Condensed trade and shipping tables with multi-year backfill | Dept of Commercial Intelligence & Statistics (Calcutta) | 1903 to 1912 | Internet Archive | open |
| Statistics of British India, Part IV(a): Finance and Revenue (incl. coinage, paper currency, public debt) Coinage, paper currency, debt | GoI Commercial Intelligence Dept | 1907 to 1912 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Tables relating to the Trade of British India with British Possessions and Foreign Countries (Parliamentary Paper) Direction of trade (UK vs rest); principal articles | India Office / HMSO (London) | 1891 to 1918 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| Tea Statistics of India Tea output and exports | Govt of India (Commercial Intelligence) | Internet Archive (DLI) | open | |
| The Economic History of India in the Victorian Age (Vol. 2, 1906 ed.) Chapters on Home Charges, debt and land revenue with quoted official figures | R.C. Dutt | 1837 to 1900 | Internet Archive (IndiaHistory) | open |
| The Evolution of Provincial Finance in British India Settlement terms and provincial revenue shares | B.R. Ambedkar (P.S. King, 1925) | 1833 to 1921 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| The Evolution of the State Bank of India, Vol. 1 (A.K. Bagchi), official SBI history, Presidency Banks to 1876 , (appendix tables not inspected) | State Bank of India / A.K. Bagchi | 1806 to 1876 | Internet Archive | open |
| The Growth of Federal Finance in India Long-run Centre–province series; 1935 Act allocation | P.J. Thomas (OUP, 1939) | 1939 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
| The History of the Bank of Bengal (G.P. Symes Scutt, 1904) | Bank of Bengal | 1806 to 1904 | Internet Archive (Cornell) | open |
| The Presidency Banks and the Indian Economy, 1876–1914 (A.K. Bagchi, OUP for SBI, 1989) | State Bank of India / OUP | 1876 to 1914 | Internet Archive (controlled lending) | open+login |
| The Reserve Bank of India, Vol. 1 (1935–1951), official history (S.L.N. Simha, 1970) Ch. 10 War financing; Ch. 13 Repatriation of sterling debt; Ch. 19 International financial institutions and sterling balances; statistical appendix | Reserve Bank of India | 1935 to 1951 | rbi.org.in (per-chapter PDFs) | open |
| The Rise, Progress, and Present Condition of Banking in India (C.N. Cooke, 1863) | Bengal Printing Co. | 1770 to 1863 | Internet Archive (Google Books scan) | open |
| Travancore Administration Report (annual) Velu Pillai Vol. 3 ch. XXIII (trade & currency), ch. XXIV (investment & credit); Vol. 4 ch. XXXVII (the Mint/coins) | Government of Travancore | 1882 to 1947 | Internet Archive (pli.kerala.rare) | open |
| Treasury files "Currency: Countries – India" (T 160/697/1 rupee exchange; T 160/677/1 rupee and US silver policy; T 160/474/2-3 exchange crisis Sept 1931; T 160/475/2 monetary policy at the Round Table Conference; T 160/809/1 surplus silver; T 160/18/5 gold imports) none | HM Treasury | 1920 to 1939 | UK National Archives (beta catalogue) | physical only |
| United Provinces Banking Enquiry Committee 1929–30, Vols I–III Vol. II evidence (in.ernet.dli.2015.90318); Vol. III (reportoftheunite033474mbp) | Govt of UP | 1930 | Internet Archive (DLI) | open |
