1/2 Kori - Bahadur Shah II [Deshalji II]

Deshalji II ruled Kutch under increasingly suffocating British oversight — the Residency at Bhuj held effective veto power over most administrative decisions by mid-century. These small silver fractions were struck acknowledging Mughal suzerainty through Bahadur Shah II's regal years, a fiction both parties maintained long after the Mughal court had any real authority. The Rebellion of 1857 ended that convention permanently; Bahadur Shah's deportation to Rangoon that year makes coins citing his reign among the last issued under that centuries-old tributary formula.