Category: History - Other
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2. Part 2To return to Northern India: at the time of Alexander’s invasion the whole of North-Western India and the Panjāb was split up into a number of small states, some, like the impor...
3. Part 3The extreme rarity of the money of a few kings, like Apollophanes, Polyxenos and Theophilos, leads us to suppose that they were pretenders. The most important kings, judging fro...
4. Part 4Kanishka, the real founder of the great Kushāṇa empire, which stretched from Kābul[26] to the banks of the Ganges, may have belonged to another branch of the Yueh-chi—he was not...
5. Part 5Skandagupta, the last of the great Gupta kings, who succeeded his father in A.D. 455, was occupied during the earlier part of his reign in defending his empire against the inroa...
6. Part 6The seated bull and horseman, the almost invariable devices on Rājpūt copper and billon coins, were introduced by the Brahman kings of Gandhāra, or Ohind (circ. 860-950), who fi...
7. Part 7Nevertheless history affords but few glimpses in early times of these peoples: the Pallavas, as is evident from inscriptions, a native pastoral tribe akin to the Kurumbas, were...
8. Part 8The last of these G̱ẖ̱aznavid princes of Lāhor, Ḵẖ̱usrū Malik, was deposed in 1187 by Muḥammad bin Sām of G̱ẖ̱or (Mu’izzu-d-dīn of the coins), who, after the final defeat of Pṛi...
9. Part 9The copper coinage follows in general the standard of the preceding Hindu kings and is very poorly executed. In the commonest type the obverse inscription is divided by a bar wi...
10. Part 10The early gold and silver coins of Akbar bear the same inscriptions, though there is some variation in their arrangement. Following Bābur’s and the Sūrī coinage, the Kalima and...
11. Part 11Here it will be convenient to deal with a coinage, which, though partially of Mug̱ẖal lineage in other respects, stands by itself. The reign of Tīpū Sult̤ān of Mysore, though la...
12. Part 12Kābul, 24, 35n, 37, 89, 92, 93, 97, 106 Kadambas, 59, 61 Kadaphes, 34 Kaital, 108 Kalachuris, 52, 53; of Kalyāṇa, 60 _Kaḷanju_ seed, 57 Kalikat (Calicut), 58, 66 Kalima, 68, 73,...