[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935) › c8.51 # Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c8.51 Life and Conditions of the People of Hindustan (1200–1550 A.D.) c8.51 - **Language:** English ### [c8.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c8.51) We may say that the prices of our period on the whole stand in a ratio of 1 : 2 to those of the reign of Akbar. Moreland has worked it out that a rupee of Akbar, for general purposes, would equal in purchasing power six rupees of the period before the Great War; or, in other words, a monthly income of five rupees would provide the same quantity of necessities as could be purchased from an income of thirty rupees in 1912 (\*vide\* India on the death of Akbar, 56). In other words, if our calculations are not altogether misleading, we may say that a Tanka of the period under review will purchase twelve times the necessities that could be purchased with a rupee before 1914. This, of course, is a very rough calculation, but will help us to appreciate better some of the facts of economic life. - [Previous: c8.50](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c8.50) - [Next: c9.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c9.2) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c8.51](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.ashraf-1935.c8.51) · Pramāṇa