1/2 Rupee - Edward VII / Madan Singh - v2 Regal Style

Kishangarh was among the smaller Rajput states in the Ajmer region, and its coinage occupied an awkward position after 1858 — nominally feudatory to the British Crown but still operating its own mint with considerable local latitude. This piece was struck in the opening year of Edward VII's reign, when many princely states scrambled to update their regal-style issues to reflect the new sovereign. The "Madan Singh" element references the ruling thakur of Kishangarh at the time, a pairing of imperial and local authority that the British tolerated but increasingly discouraged as currency standardization pressure mounted through the early 1900s.