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By conducting micro-level die study of N.G. Rhodes and S.K. Bose have presented before the readers certain hitherto unknown traits of Ahom coins. It may be surprising to know that forged coins. It may be surprising to know that forged coins existed even during the Ahom period as has been elaborately dealt by the two scholars. Even today some unscrupulous persons resort to forgery of ahom coins to pass on as “genuine†for monetary gain and thereby create ...
The Coinage of Assam, Vol. 1, is indeed a seminal work of N.G. Rhodes and S.K. Bose on the coinage and monetary development in Assam in the Pre-Ahom Period. The authors have not only exhaustively listed and elaborately discussed the numismatic aspects of the coins issued by various political authorities in and outside Assam but discovered in the soils of Assam and the currencies of other types, e.g. the cowrie shells, but also placed them in the historical ...
Sonam Wangfel Laden La was a unique personality on the India Tibet frontier during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Born into a Sikkimese Lama family, long established in Darjeeling, he was initially educated in the Nyingmapa Buddhist tradition as a novice monk in Pemayangtse Monastery. He was then sent to Darjeeling, to be educated by Christian Jesuit priests, alongside British boys. At the same time he lived at Ghum Monastery in Darjeeling, ...