Reports of total integrity and honesty of the people in ancient India #7: The supreme honesty of its bankers

India was one of the innovators of banking, with the hundi system. Here’s an extract from The Global World of Indian Merchants, 1750-1947 by Claude Markovits == The record of the Shikarpuris remains nevertheless impressive: in spite of the losses suffered in the Russian debacle, they were able to reinvent themselves as the foremost community […]