Takka - Arjan Pal Karauli

Karauli was among the smaller Rajput princely states that retained minting rights under British paramountcy, producing copper coinage largely for local bazaar circulation well into the 1880s. The takka denomination served petty trade in a region where British Imperial coinage had not yet fully displaced indigenous issues. Arjan Pal's reign saw no dramatic political rupture, but the minting authority itself was already an anachronism — the broader standardization push under the Government of India would render most such state mints obsolete within a generation.