Inflation is a market situation when the price of a commodity increase due to the economic laws of demand and supply. There are numerous determinants for inflation. Some of the reasons for such a situation could be increase in population ,more demand of food, less productivity of food crop, export of food crop, hoarding by marketeers, devaluation of Rupee , government policies including the monetary & fiscal policies.
inflation in india is measured by whole sale price index.
RUNNING INFLATION: "It refers to the situation where the price level rises very fast. In case, price level doubles up every 3 years. It is, generally, succeeded by galloping inflation"
Hyperinflation is an extremely rapid or out of control inflation and there is no precise numerical definition to hyperinflation. Hyperinflation is a situation where the price increases are so out of control that the concept of inflation is meaningless.
Inflation rate is calculated by Reserve Bank of India . For inflation rate , basic necessitygoods price is taken as base and on that bases inflation rate is calculated.
Demand-pull inflation: prices rise due to shortage; firms produce more and raise price to meet demand. Cost-push inflation: prices rise due to increasing costs of production; firms raise price in order to not produce less.
Current inflation in India is a bit volatile. However, given different estimated values of commonly understood inflation in India, the Wholesale Price Index for all commodities is 156.8 for the month of October 2011 with a base of 2004-05=100. Inflation is the rate of change over any reference period. So, If we compare the figure with October 2010, the inflation is around 9.5 percent. However, wholesale price index (WPI) is not the only indicator to understand inflation. There are other indicators such as Consumer Price Index (CPI). Even within WPI and CPI there are also divisions for different groups of population. In India, for such subgroups inflation is measured by finding the rate of change in such indices for groups like agricultural labourers, urban non-manual employees, Industrial workers and so on. For a detailed description on inflation in Indian context, one may refer to the link <http://lokkatha.com/150/index.php/economics/55-inflation-a-price-rise-in-essential-commodities-a-consumers-perspective> Inflation & Price Rise in Essential Commodities: A Consumer's Perspective
The effect of inflation in India is an unbalanced relationship between the amount of money earned and the cost of regular goods. This relationship can be controlled by bank authorities by limiting inflation.
Increasing gold prices can lead to inflation. Falling gold prices tend to improve investment.
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Prices situation that emerged in India was because of international commodity prices and since India is no longer a closed economy here were global recession. Also, there was drought. Hence, the price rise.
east India company had come into exitance by increasing tax,selling machine made good with rates,increasing general price levels,economic exploitation.EAST INDIA COMPANY captured power in 1757but established in1857 revolt.
This is called inflation or more precisely "price inflation".