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The scion of a Central Asia's nomadic tribe, (called Yueh-chi), Kusanas descended upon the plains of northern India--sometime around the first century after Christ. And gradually built a great, vastly extensive empire in the Yamuno-Gangetic region. But owing to a marked deficiency of indigenous literary sources, Kusana history has continued to be the sport of conjecture. Or, for the last 200 years or so, an area of chroniclers' debate, involving scholars: both ...
A treatise on numismatic history, the book draws evidence from coins in the Himachal State Museum, Shimla and Bhuri Singh Museum, Chamba to recount the history of Himachal Pradesh. The figures and inscriptions on these coins have been painstakingly deciphered to chronologize the period of suzerainty of the various monarchies. In the citation of the Huntington Medal awarded to Dr. Parameshwari Lal Gupta in 1988 by the American Numismatic Society, New York, he has ...