The Raj and the Rajas (Hardcover)

Introduction: Sanjay Garg

Part I: Studies

1. Sovereignty and the ‘Sikka‘ under the Raj: Minting Prerogatives and Imperial Legitimacy in India
John S. Deyell and Robert E. Frykenberg

2. A Tale of Numismatic Diplomacy
Sanjay Garg

3. ‘Sikka’ and the Crown: Genesis of the Native
Coinage Act, 1876
Sanjay Garg

4. A Metallic Mirror: Changing Representation of
Sovereignty during the Raj
Shailendra Bhandare

5. Change in Superscription on Coins of Native States,
1858-1872
Sarjit Singh Randhawa

6. Economic Relations between the Paramount Power
and the Princely States of India, 1858-1881
Ajit K. Neogy

7. Suppression of the Native Mints
P.J.E. Stevens

a. The Bombay Presidency:

i. The Mints of the Northern Districts

ii. The Mints of the Southern Maratha Country

iii. The Transitional Mints of the Deccan

iv. Introduction of Machine Made Copper Coins
and the Challenge of Local Mints

b. The Bengal Presidency: the Ceded and Conquered Provinces:

i. Mints of Northern India

ii. The Farrukhabad Mint

Part II: Records

1. Suppression of the Native copper coin, and for general introduction of the Government copper coin, 1862

2. Introduction of British coins into Bundelkhand in
place of Native coins in circulation, 1864

3. The Case of Cooch-Behar:

a. Financial Condition and the Coinage of Cooch
Behar State, 1864

b. Introduction of Coinage of British India into
Cooch Behar, 1864

4. Manufacturing of Coins by Native States, 1868

5. Manufacture of Copper Coin in Birmingham Mint
for Some Native States of India, 1869 331

6. Suggestion of Financial Department that Native
Chiefs having Mints be Induced to Forego them,
or that they should Assimilate their Coins with
Government of India Ones, 1869

7. Papers regarding mints in the native states, 1870

8. Secretary of State’s Despatch Relative to Mints still
in Existence in Native States, 1872

9. Coining Money in British Mints for Native
States, 1876

10. Regulation or Suppression of Mints in Native
States, 1876

11. Gold and Silver Annually Coined by Native States
in India, 1885

12. Proposal to Generally restrict the coinage of copper
by Native States in Rajputana, 1886-1888

13. Particulars Regarding the Currencies of Native
States, 1895

14. Reports on the Measures Taken by the Native
States to Substitute British Currency for Native
Currencies, 1896

15. Proposed Measures for the Encouragement of
Circulation of Standard Gold Currency in Native
States, 1900