Goron & Goenka, The coins of the Indian Sultanates

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Peter

Hard Bound, (Size: 29.5x22.5cms.), (3013 coins ills.), The coinage of the Indian Sultanates is a very important primary source for helping us to understand the political and economic history of much of what is now India, Pakistan and Bangladesh during the period from the beginning of the thirteenth century AD until the seventeenth century when the last of the sultantes, that of Bijapur, was absorbed in the Mughal Empire. The right of sikka, i.e., the right to strike coins was one of the two juridically recognised expressions of the right of the ruler to sovereignty, and it was a right that was jealously guarded. It is a happy feature of Islamic coinage that the coins bear information not only about the rulers names and titles but very often also the place and date of minting. In this way we can follow the progress of theri rule as their territories expanded or contracted. We can learn of rulers who are otherwise not known to history, their usually ephemeral reigns not recorded in any literary sources that have come down to us. We can also examine the metals used for the currency, its finness or debasement, and seek to draw conclusions from that. The presen tbook, however, does not go that far. It is not intended as an economic history of the sultanate period but as an extensive, illustrated catalogue of coin types. More types are included here than in any previously published book on sultanate coins. Many yare published for the first time. They come from both public and private collections in India and elsewhere. Brief histories are included for ach sultanate as well as comments on the coinage and the coin legends. An extensive bibliography is also provided. This book will serve as an essential reference for students and collectors of Indian sultanate coins and for anyone else interested in this period of South Asian history. ISBN:9788121510103 xxxi+532 Yr. of Pub.2001. Bookseller Inventory # 48025

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