1 Cash - Tirunelveli Madurai

The Nawabdom of the Carnatic by the 1750s was effectively a contested fiction — the nawabs nominally ruled under Mughal suzerainty while the British and French East India Companies manipulated succession disputes to extract territorial and trading concessions. This particular issue falls squarely within the years of the Carnatic Wars, when Muhammad Ali Khan Wallajah held the nawabship largely because Robert Clive and British arms kept him there. Tirunelveli and Madurai, both deep in the Tamil south, had their own administrative histories long predating Carnatic authority, and local copper coinage continued largely on indigenous terms regardless of who nominally controlled the revenue.