Rupiyanama: Princely Indian Rupees by Mohit Kapoor
Find out how successor states and princely kingdoms in India embraced the rupee after the fall of the Mughals
Indian princes
Royal Indian Symbols on Rupees
Decode the emblems on coins that that signalled political identity in pre-Independence India
Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza of Delhi attended by his Treasurer and Physician
The 18th and 19th centuries saw many visits from British artists to India. They travelled everywhere and stayed with royal families. Before the lithographic press was invented, artists collaborated with engravers and woodcutters to get portraits engraved and then printed. This is an engraving of a portrait of Prince Fakhr-ud Din Mirza, the eldest son… Read more »