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The work is meant, primarily, for undergraduate and postgraduate students, who have offered courses in ancient Indian numismatics and epigraphy. Teacher and student, alike, often find is difficult to locate coins and inscriptions, in their true the historical perspective, without some knowledge of the political history of the period of their issue. Unfortunately, in the present day scenario of history writing, where political history has lost ground to ...
Coins form an important source of the history of ancient India; in fact, for certain periods, like those of the Indo-Greeks, the Saka-Pahlavas, and the Western Kshatrapas, monetary issues are almost the only source of our information. In the preface of his magnum opus, The Indo-Greeks, A K Narain very aptly remarks, ' For certain periods of Indian history the historian has toi be a numismatist'.
Several years back, the Numismatic Society of Indian launched an ...
The primary purpose of a coin is to facilitate economic transactions. At times, skilled artists were engaged to prepared dies and casts for manufacturing coins, and some of their creations can be classed as objects d’art. The present monograph is an attempt to study the art motifs on the coins of India from the earliest times to c 650 A.D. An Introduction in the beginning presents the features of art in ancient Indian coinage. The device of the royal hunt, so ...
This is the first comprehensive study of the joint, commemorative, and victory coins of ancient India, which form a more important source of history than the normal issues. The Introduction discusses the nature and scope of tlie work. The hook is divided into three sections dealing with the Joint Issues, Commemorative Medallions, and Victory Medals. The first five chapters, forming Section I, deal with the joint issues of the Indo-Greeks, Scytho-Parthians, ...
As a humble tribute to their esteemed teacher and a great human being, Prof. Kiran Kumar Thaplyal, this book, History and Heritage, is brought out by his proud students as a guru-dakashina. All his students of successive generations have always held him high I great admiration, respect and love for his erudition, for his self-effacing nature and for his ever-charged enthusiasm that he has shown ungrudgingly whenever someone sought his help, guidance, interaction, ...
The monograph aims at highlighting the significant role played by the family of the Apracha kings in ancient Indian history, and at connecting this family of the Apracha kings with the Asvaka tribe. The work is divided into six chapters. Chapter I deals with the history of the family of the Apracha kings. The members of this family acted as subordinate rulers and strategoi, first under the Indo-Greeks and subsequently under the Indo-Greeks and subsequently under ...