Sitamau was among the smaller Rajput states in the Malwa region of central India, covering barely 200 square miles at its greatest extent. Raj Singh's reign stretched across six decades — an unusually long tenure that meant this copper paisa circulated under a single issuing authority through the entire middle period of Company consolidation in the region, from the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Maratha War through to the post-Mutiny reorganization of 1858.
Small feudatory states like Sitamau retained the right to strike copper for local use long after silver and gold coinage had effectively passed to external control.
Sitamau was among the smaller Rajput states in the Malwa region of central India, covering barely 200 square miles at its greatest extent. Raj Singh's reign stretched across six decades — an unusually long tenure that meant this copper paisa circulated under a single issuing authority through the entire middle period of Company consolidation in the region, from the aftermath of the Second Anglo-Maratha War through to the post-Mutiny reorganization of 1858.
Small feudatory states like Sitamau retained the right to strike copper for local use long after silver and gold coinage had effectively passed to external control.