Sanjay Garg
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The Archaeology of Buddhism involves the recovery and scientific investigation of the material remains of past cultures that can illuminate the periods, events and other descriptions mentioned in the religious tests. It is hoped that this volume will underscore the imperative need for institutionalizing the archaeology of Buddhism as a specialized branch of the study of our shared heritage, and will promote a better appreciation of the archaeological heritage of ...
Contents: 1. The bull on Indian coins/Devendra Handa. 2. The earliest Saivite images on ancient Indian coins/Wilfried Pieper. 3. Aspects of Indo-Roman trade/Michael Mitchiner. 4. Roman Copper Folles of Diocletian from South India/David W. Mac Dowall. 5. A contemporary counterfeit coin of Flavius Valens (364-378 AD), the Byzantine/Jee Francis Therattil. 6. Sealings of Yuvaraja Vasisthiputra chada/Dr. Amarendra Nath. 7. A short presentation on one west-Indian and ...
Shahpurshah Hormasji Dinshahji Hodivala (1867-1944), was an iconic figure in the field of medieval Indian numismatics and his contribution to the study of Mughal Numismatics is unequalled. In 1923 he published his seminal work on the coins of the Mughal rulers of India Historical Studies in Mughal Numismatics. It has served as a beacon of light to the students of Mughal Numismatics for over ninety years.
The present volume contains 34 papers of Hodivala which ...
20 articles, relating with Ancient, Medieval and Modern Indian coins by eminent scholars.
In the process of colonization of India by the British, currency proved to be a vital weapon as it directly affected almost every aspect of the economic life of the society. The book encapsulates the story of Indian currency during the early days of the colonial rule in India. It presents a comprehensive account of the currency policy of the British East India Company, which it pursued to establish a uniform currency in India. The process of currency leg ...
This Maqta series, presented by Sanjay Garg, seeks to bridge the gap between the poetry of the Great Urdu Masters and the milieu of its lovers, who are separated by the language, or the script barrier. In this book Sanjay Garg presents a selection of one hundred Maqta’s of Mirza Ghalib chosen from his choicest ghazals. In this unique anthology, Ghalib could be seen addressing himself occasionally as a critic, sometimes as a sympathizer and a counselor, and ...
Contents: 1. Coinage, Prestige and Identity: From Rome to Persepolis and China/Michael Alram. 2. Linking the Past: Overstruck Coins and the Chronology of the Satavahanas/Shailendra Bhandare. 3. Kankali Tila and Kushan Chronology/Robert Bracey. 4. Fascination with the Past: Ancient Persia on the Coins and Banknotes of Iran/Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis.1 5. Reinterpretation of a Samatata Coin - The First Numismatic Depiction of Bodhisattva/Manjushri John S. Deyell. 6. A ...
Coins play an important role in the development of mankind. After serving their role as currency in their respective periods, they assume a new character as a reliable and unbiased source of history. The importance of coins as a source for ancient Indian historiography has long been realized by the historians. However, for medieval Indian historiography the numismatic evidence provided by the coins have so far not achieved its due position – a fact underlined ...
Indian Nunismatics, History Art and Culture is a felicitation volume in honour of Dr. Parmeshwari Lal gupta. the wide areans of Numismatics, History, Art and Culture. the contributors have put efforts to cover the maximum areas of Numismatics, History, Art and Culture in this volume by contributing 37 scholoary written papers. It will certainly make a wider impact on the minds of the readers.
1. A hoard of early local punch marked coins of Magadha Janapada/Sharad Sharma and Shinji Hirano. 2. Some Magadha series 1 overstrikes from Sasaram/Pankaj Tandon. 3. Yaudheya Chronology and Coinage: an analysis/Richard D. Mann. 4. Some rare Shadanana-Shashthi/Deer type Yaudheya Coins/Devendra Handa. 5. A new silver coin of Vasisthiputra Vijaya Satakarni/L.B. Varma. 6. Coins of the Kadambas of Banavasi/M. Girijapathi and L. Subrahmanya. 7. Padmatanka of Queen ...
Bahadur Shah Zafar (1775-1862) was the last Mughal King of India. When he was 82, the First War of Independence started in 1857. After Delhi was recaptured by the British Army on 14 September 1857, Zafar was captured and later tried by a Military Court on charges of treason and murder. Next year, he was exiled to Rangoon along with his wife Zinat Mahal and the remaining members of the family. He languished the last few years of his life in prison in an alien ...