1 Rupee - Bar Gosain II

The Jaintia Kingdom, occupying the hills straddling present-day Meghalaya and Assam, maintained its own silver coinage well into the eighteenth century despite sustained Mughal pressure on the surrounding lowland polities. Bar Gosain II ruled during a period when Jaintia kings bore the title "Gosain" — a term with Vaishnava devotional overtones that reflected the syncretic religious identity of the court. The kingdom would not fall under British administration until 1835, making this issue roughly a century removed from annexation.