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1 Kasu - Rajas of Sivaganga
| Issuer | Rajas of Sivaganga |
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| Year | 1743-1801 |
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| Currency | Rupee |
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| Obverse script | Tamil |
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| Reverse description | Central device depicts a stylised royal emblem or sacred symbol, possibly a lamp or altar form with a pointed finial above, flanked by small pellets or decorative dots arranged symmetrically in the field. Below the central motif appear horizontal registers typical of South Indian copper kasu iconography. The overall design is executed in a schematic, highly stylised manner consistent with hammered provincial coinage of the Sivaganga rajas. The plain, irregular flan shows typical surface porosity of the period. |
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Sivaganga was a Palayam — one of the semi-autonomous chieftaincies carved out of the collapsing Nayak territories in the early eighteenth century. The rajas operated with considerable local authority until the 1801 Polygars' War, when British forces under the East India Company suppressed the Sivaganga chieftaincy following its role in sustained armed resistance. The state was then absorbed into the Madras Presidency, ending independent copper coinage from this mint.