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	Publisher: Shubhi Publications, Gurgaon
	Author Dewan Bahadur, T. Desikachari
	Language: English
	Pages: 197 (B/W Illustrations)
	Cover: HARDCOVER
	8.5x6 inch
	Weight 400 gm
	Edition: 2025
	ISBN: 9788182905214
	HBQ891

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About the Book Epigraphy and numismatics play a vital role in the reconstruction of Ancient Indian History because of the fact that unlike Greece, Rome or China, Ancient India has no history, because the Indians of antiquity did not care to leave written accounts of all their achievements. It is believed that Numismatics and epigraphy merely confirm history put seldom modify or amplify it. However, this does not hold true for India. No connected written history of India for any period prior to the Muhammadan conquest has come down to us. We therefore have the construct it as best as we can out of the materials at our disposal. These belong to two main classes, the first of which consists of works written as panegyrics by Hindu authors or as descriptive accounts by foreign travelers and historians. The second class of materials is of a more important nature, and comprises epigraphy and numismatics.

Foreword THE study of South Indian numismatics is a fascinating one opening up a long succession of events to be remembered and anticipated, the vicissitudes of the history of the Peninsula of India South of the Vindhya for over two thousand years. From the time that I read my first paper before the Madras Literary Society in 1888, I have been speaking or writing on South Indian Coins. The limited number of copies of my contributions to learned Societies or Journals has become exhausted: for year after year those who have done me the honor of visiting me and seeking my coins have been given copies of whatever I had written on the relics of a forgotten coinage illustrating South Indian history. The call came for these being collected and printed in the form of a book so that my early efforts in this still vast and unexplored field of research might be made available to students interested in South Indian coins. Among my many visitors were scholars of repute, young people qualifying for University Degrees and distinguished personages like Governors of the Province. I have therefore collected together a few of my papers read before the Madras Literary Society and articles contributed to journals of repute and issued this my first volume dealing with South Indian Numismatics to be followed at an early date by a second volume bringing the matter up-to-date and correcting or amending if needed the conclusions which I have arrived at years ago. There are many departments of Numismatic interest in my Coin Register still requiring scholarly treatment; but many preoccupations, unrelated to scholarly pursuits, did latterly so obsess me as to neglect the publication of my notes that I sometimes thought that they could be published but posthumously. Still I hope, the span of life allotted to me permitting its being done, to complete the work if at least demonstrate that there is yet a great deal to be done for our reading and understanding properly the history of the Dravida Desam from inscriptions and coins. The sole object of the present reprint of my papers, articles and notes on South Indian Coins is but to instill an enthusiasm and promote a keen desire for the reconstruction of South Indian history on the basis of such evidence as is real and not on materials as are based on mere tradition and imagination.

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