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The system of Indian weights, in its local development, though necessarily asserting a minor claim to the consideration of the European world, may well maintain a leading position in the general investigation of national metrologies, on the ground of its rudimentary and independent organization, and the very ancient date at which its definitions were embodied and committed to writing; while to numismatists if offers the exceptional interest of being able to ...
The Chronicles, last published in 1871, had long gone out of print, much to the inconvenience of the scholars and serious students of mediaeval Indian History. The Chronicles has always been regarded as the starting point for the study of the coins of the Sultans of Delhi. It describes, besides the contemporary coinage in other parts of India, some 320 coins of the Sultans of Delhi. In this classic work the author has discussed the metrology of the coins, of ...
