Who among the following acted as a money-changer during the medieval India ?
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Shroff
MONEY IN THE VILLAGE: The seventeenth-century French traveller Jean-Baptiste Tavernier found it remarkable that in “India a village must be very small indeed if it has not a moneychanger called a Shroff. (They) act as bankers to make remittances of money (and who) enhance the rupee as they please for paisa and the paisa for these (cowrie) shells”.