Indian merchants and Banian's role in Iran economy of Saffavid era

The establishment of Saffavid government with twelve-Imam Shiite religious approach, opened a new time in Iran's history and differentiated this time of world from Iran's past periods of history. On the one hand, creating a powerful central government, military captures, territory development and stabilization on boundaries being neighbor with the competitor governments of the neighbor and on the other hand, actions such as providing safety of roads, developing caravanserai and the Saffavid economic and political relations with Europeans provided growth and prosperity reasons of Iran's domestic and foreign trade in Saffavid era. Following this importance, a suitable situation was provided for activity and presence of foreign businessmen such as Indian merchants in Iran. In this research, it has been attempted to consider preparation elements of presence and activity of Banian and Indian merchants in Iran's economic field of Saffavid era and also their activity outcomes through a historical research method with a descriptive-analytic approach based on library resources. Due to Indian merchants' activity in affairs such as money-changing and usury transactions which allotted them lots of profits, Iran economy of Saffavid era encountered with disadvantageous outcomes such as the exodus of desired coins to India, decrease of national money value and therefore increase of Indian commercial level comparing with Iran.