1 Tanka - Rajadhara Manikya

Rajadhara Manikya ruled Tripura for less than two years before his death in 1586, making his coinage among the rarest issues of the Manikya dynasty. The kingdom sat between Bengal and Burma, and its rulers maintained a persistent balancing act between Mughal imperial pressure from the west and their own hill-country independence — a tension that shaped the dynasty's political identity throughout the sixteenth century. Tripura was one of the few northeastern states never fully absorbed into the Mughal system, and its silver tankage continued under local authority accordingly.