This collection makes available to numismatists, archaeologists, historians and coin collectors twenty four papers by scholars who have specialised knowledge of coins. They help us to understand the rich and varied culture of South India from c. 300 B.C. to 1800 A.D. The authors discuss about : South Indian and foreign coins, coin moulds; coins with a portrait of a saint, a poet; coins with the name of a social reformer, a prime minister and other interesting ...
Rangavalli is a fitting tribute of felicitation paid by a generation of scholars, old and new from all parts of the world to an outstanding archaeologist, Dr. S.R. Rao, internationally known for the decipherment of the Indus script. The collection of Research essays is at once scholarly and varied and of absorbing interest and represents a cross section of Indian scholarship in various subjects such as Indian history, prehistory, protohistory, epigraphy, ...