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6 Britain, U.S.A., and the Indian Gold Standard Controversy, 1925-7The Making of a Commission; The Gold Standard Controversy; The Politics of Silver, 1927-35; Gold-Bullion Standard -- Myth and Reality; 7 The Depression Years; 'Gold Shortage' and the Sterling Crisis; The Depression and India's External Sector; The Policy Response and Constraints; Gold Exports and Sterling Policy; Gold Exports and the Indian Economy; A Gold Glut?; Conclusion; 8 The Politics of Monetary Autonomy and the Imperial Interest in Interwar India; The Early Impetus for Central Banking.

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History is conventionally imagined and narrated in the context of the nation, relating its stories and shaped by its imaginaries. To the extent the latter are selectively re-encoded into seemingly wider scales or spaces of historical narration, projects such as global history may be said to be oxymorons. Historians in the post-colonial world have also long been aware of the nation's shadow even in purportedly transnational projects emanating from the North, yet many remain similarly in thrall to the nation. In surveying the various levels at which histories have attempted to be narrated purportedly beyond the boundaries of nations, this article argues for a more consciously layered awareness of our multiple historical locations. Life unfolds at multiple levels and spaces between which exist complex overlays, tensions, conflicts and connections. Besides the conventions and expediencies of scholarship, often in practice historians too, will feel impelled to privilege one or another level or locus for their stories. However it is important to be aware of the reasons and limitations of such choices, and that no level or locus of analysis can credibly claim to subsume all others, or render them redundant.

Naturalizing a global 'world of capitalist totality' serves as a modality for normalizing global processes of capital accumulation. However 'global' remains a project evinced in specific forms of cultural action and practices. This preliminary article juxtaposes two vastly separated spheres of global economy and society that are rarely considered together. The haute sphere of a crisis ridden global financial system increasingly sees its salvation in mobilizing and disposing of the 'surpluses of the Orient' in a manner that speeds up global capital accumulation. In this light the financial crisis and the enhanced global role and aspirations of Asian states, in particular China and India, may lead to compromises in the ways both states have articulated local, national and global accumulation processes to one another, and mediated their impact on marginalized domestic social groups. Historians have traditionally misrecognized struggles of subordinated social groups to resist surrendering their claims to capital or resist proletarianization. It has now become more important than ever to revisit these struggles and their redoubts to uncover cultural and political actions for grounding the 'global', and the practices, idioms and relationships of resistance to them.