J.P. Goenka
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 Sultanates, that of Bijapur, was absorbed into the Mughal Empire. The right of Sikka, i.e., the right to strike coins was one of the two juridically recognised ...