Kishangarh's copper issues of this period are among the more loosely administered coinages of the Rajputana states — struck under nominal Mughal suzerainty long after that authority had ceased to mean anything practical. By the early nineteenth century, Shah Alam II was blind, confined to Delhi under Maratha control, and had no real reach into Rajputana. His name on provincial copper was ritual, not political.
The thirty-year span of this type reflects how slowly Kishangarh adapted its coinage to changing realities — the East India Company's monetary standardization campaigns were already underway before this type was retired.
Kishangarh's copper issues of this period are among the more loosely administered coinages of the Rajputana states — struck under nominal Mughal suzerainty long after that authority had ceased to mean anything practical. By the early nineteenth century, Shah Alam II was blind, confined to Delhi under Maratha control, and had no real reach into Rajputana. His name on provincial copper was ritual, not political.
The thirty-year span of this type reflects how slowly Kishangarh adapted its coinage to changing realities — the East India Company's monetary standardization campaigns were already underway before this type was retired.