 | Sir Henry Miers Elliot - India - 1871 - 670 pages
...these they purchased horses, arms, and fine things of all kinds. The rats, the village headmen and landowners, grew rich and strong upon these copper...was filled with these copper coins. So low did they fell that they were not valued more than pebbles or potsherds. The old coin, from its great scarcity,... | |
 | Stanley Lane-Poole - India - 1903 - 480 pages
...village headmen, and landowners grew rich upon these copper coins, but the state was impoverished. In those places where fear of the sultan's edict prevailed, the gold tanka rose to be worth a hundred of the [token] tankas. Every goldsmith struck copper coins in his workshop, and the treasury was filled with... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1920 - 880 pages
...paid their tribute, and with these they purchased horses, arms, and fine things of all kinds. . . . Every goldsmith struck copper coins in his workshop...the treasury was filled with these copper coins.' i Ziau-d din accuses the Sultan of ' patronizing and favouring the Mughals ' (E. & D., iii. 251). He... | |
 | Vincent Arthur Smith - India - 1928 - 866 pages
...paid their tribute, and with these they purchased horses, arms, and fine things of all kinds. . . . Every goldsmith struck copper coins in his workshop...the treasury was filled with these copper coins.' 1 Ziau-d din accuses the Sultan of ' patronizing and favouring the Mughals ' (E. ct D., iii. 251).... | |
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So low did they fell that they were not valued more than pebbles or potsherds. The old coin, from its great scarcity, rose four-fold and five-fold in value. 