Numismatica Indica : Festschrift to Prof. D. Raja Reddy
Contents: Foreword. Message. I. Biographical sketch of Dr. D. Raja Reddy: 1. Biographical sketch of Prof. Dr. D. Raja Reddy and his contribution to numismatic studies/P. Chenna Reddy. 2. Dr. D. Raja Reddy: a gold coin from Andhra Pradesh/A.V. Narasimha Murthy. 3. Dr. D. Raja Reddy Pushes the antiquity of Telugu language to third century B.C./E. Siva Nagi Reddy. II. 4. Invention of coin/G. Kamalakar. 5. Vedic and post-Vedic coinage/Pranati Ghosal. 6. Pusad hoard of pre-satavahana coins: a treasure/Prashant P. Kulkarni. 7. Coin hoards of early foreign rulers in India/Sunanda Srivastava. 8. Coin of an unknown Pamchala Ruler: Visvagupta/Om Prakash Lal Srivastava and R. Rawat. 9. Coins of the ancient Republics of Rajasthan/Lalit Pandey. 10. Unique Satavahana sealing found in Vidarbha/Ashok Jairaj Singh Thakur. 11. An Asvamedha type coin from Kadapa District, Andhra Pradesh/C.A. Padmanabha Sastry. 12. Recently discovered lead coins of Satavahana and Iksvaku Kings/V.V. Subba Reddy. 13. Numismatic evidence from Banavasi excavations/A.V. Narasimha Murthy. 14. Ancient trade centers in Kerala: a conjecture on numismatic evidences/T. Satyamurthy. 15. Coinage of the North-West India/Devendra Handa. 16. The Pusad Hoard of Sebaka and other coins/Rajesh K. Somkuwar. 17. Early Sangam Pandya coins from Madurai/P. Shanmugam. 18. A note on newly discovered Ratha type coin of Vima Kadphises/Sachin Kr. Tiwary. 19. Religious symbols on the coins of the Alupas/Mandarke Nityanada Pai. 20. Huvishka’s Buddha image gold coin/Devender Handa. 21. Mint errors on imperial silver punch marked coins/Rehan Ahamad. 23. Late Roma Copper coins from Karur and Madurai, Tamilnadu/P.V. Radhakrishnan. 24. The myth of the Vakataka coins/Shankar Goyal. 25. Kalabhra Coin/K.R. Sathanandham and Muthukumaran. 26. The myth of the golden Bird: an investigation into the belief of material opulence of ancient and early medieval India in the light of her Gold coinage/S.R. Goyal. 27. Pallava coins : a study in numismatic, epigraphy and calligraphy/S. Suresh. 28. Chalukya ancestry of Venad rulers/Beena Sarasan. 29. The history and coinage of Nolambas/M. Girijapathy. 30. Coinage tradition in medieval Deccan/Danish Moin. 31. Rare coinageof the Kakativas/P. Chenna Reddy and B. Subrahmanyam. 32. Two Padmatankas of Yadava Ramadeva/Chandrashekhar Gupta. 33. Treasure trove finds of Karnataka rulers discovered outside Karnataka/V.B. Patil. 34. Akbar’s Das (One Tenth of a Rupee)/Devendar Handa. 35. A survey of the coinage of the Qutb Shahi dynasty/R. Varalakshmi. 36. Counterfeit Sikh Coins of Malkarian Mint/Devendar Handa. 37. Three counterfeit Maratha Rupees of Pune Mint/Dhopate S.G. 38. A rare rupee of Awadh/Devendar Handa. 39. Monetary history of early Maratha period (1664AD-1700AD)/Amol N. Bankar. 40. Vira Raya Panam an enigmatic coin/P. Gopal Reddy. 41. Conis of Arcot Nawabs and some legends and motifs. 42. Gold coins and medals in Tirumala Tirupati Treasury. 43. Jain literature as a source of numismatic data in Western India. 44. The appearance and disappearance of ancient coins in India. 45. Conservation of coins and their authentication. 46. Sir Isaac Newton and Indian coins/K.V. Ramakrishna Rao. 47. Two rupee coins of independent India/V. Balambal.
It is a festschrift presented to Dr. D. Raja Reddy, a reputed Neurosurgeon and Numismatist. The volume contains a wide range of articles on coins and coinage of India right from the beginning till to the recent times such as the punch marked coins and the coins of the preSatavahana, Satavahana, Sangam, Ikshvaku, Vakataka, Chalukya, Alupa, Pallava, Kakatiya, Vijayanagara, Delhi Sultanate, Mughal, Maratha, Sikh, Awadh and the British along with the literary evidences on the coins and coinage of India. A galaxy of scholars in numismatics representing all the states of India have contributed articles in hounour of Dr. D. Raja Reddy, a versatile Numismatist and a Historian. The spirit of the book lies in its continuity of history of coinage and the change over a period of time that made the life of the people comfortable.
