Recent Researches in Epigraphy and Numismatics
Contents: Preface. Presidential Address/Dr. Sanjay Garg. Section I: Ancient Indian Numismatic: 1. Late Imperial PMC Coin hoards from Bengal: An analytical study/Sandip Pan. 2. The Elephant and Hill Uninscribed Cast Copper Coins and their presence in the late 5th – 4th c BCE/Dr. Kurush F. Dalal. 3. WimaKadphises Gold Coinage: Reformation of Coinages in Ancient India from Silver to Gold/Venkitachalam Iyer. 4. The Disappearance of Tusker Elephants on Coinageof Later Satavahana Kings: Visible signs of Polarity amongst motifs in Coinage/Chaitanya Bhide. 5. Water Crafts on Coins, Seals and Sealings/Sreemanti Laha and Suvasree Chatterjee. 6. Dinaras in Early Bengal: Circulation and Beyond/Soumya Ghosh. Section II: Medieval Indian Numismatics: 7. Revisiting the Repousse Minting Technique/Abhick Sarkar. 8. Working Theory on Metrology of Ancient and Medieval Indian Coins: An Introduction/Mukesh Sharma. 9. A New Classification of Mughal Mints with special reference to Mughal Deccan/Dr. Mahesh A. Kalra. 10. Portugal Honours Garcia Da Orta: The First Landlord of Bombay (Mumbai) with a Coin Issue/Adv. Ashok Shahani. Section III: Modern Numismatics: 11. The Relevance of Mahatma Gandhi as a Numismatic and Philatelic Icon in the Twenty First Century/Dr. Mahesh A Kalra. 12. India Post: Themes and Biases in Commemorative Stamps Issued From 1995-2015/Raamesh Gowri Raghavan. Section IV: Epigraphy: President's Address - Marathi Epigraphic Records: A Rich Source of Regional History/Dr. Anuradha K Ranade. 13. A Medieval Memorial Stone at Wagholi, District Pune-A Study/Dr. Manjiri Bhalera. 14. Raigad Plates of Vijayaditya: A Reappraisal/Dr. Ambarish Khare. 15. Architecture of a cave at Karle in the light of its Donative Inscription/Anand Kanitkar. 16. Devnagari Inscription from Mandapeshvar Cave/Shamika Sarvankar. 17. The Sohgaura Bronze Plaque Inscription: A Critical Appraisal/Soumya Ghosh. 18. Padan Inscriptions: Some New Observations/Dr. Suraj A. Pandit and Dr. Prachi Moghe. 19. Numismatic Gleanings from the Corpus of Ass-curse Steles/Harshada Wirkud. 20. Epigraphs at Raigad Fort: The exceptional ones..!/Dr. Milind Paradkar.
The book is born out of the Proceedings of Nat Num Conf’ 2016 held on 24 and 25 December 2016 at Sathaye College, Mumbai by Centre for History Archaeology Epigraphy & Numismatics (CHAEN) in association with the Ancient Indian Culture Department, Sathaye College. The book represents some of the latest research in the fields of Indian Numismatics and Epigraphy with papers by young and upcoming scholars from both the fields.
Nat Num Conf’ 2016 was held on 24 and 25 December in memory of Dr. Parmeshwari Lal Gupta (1914-2001), the doyen of Indian Numismatics whose birth anniversary on 24 December became a cohesive force in holding the Conference for showcasing latest research in Indian Numismatics and Epigraphy. Thus, the organizers found support from various quarters for organizing the conference and a total of 35 Papers were presented under 4 sections of Ancient, Medieval and Modern Numismatics along with Epigraphy. Out of these, 20 papers and 2 presidential addresses have been incorporated in this volume.
