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Timsha - Girvan Yuddha
| Issuer | Garhwal, Princely state of |
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| Year | 1806-1815 |
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| Weight | 2.5 g |
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| Edge | Plain |
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| Mintage | ND (1806-1815) |
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Garhwal's coinage during this window reflects one of the more dramatic territorial disruptions in early nineteenth-century India. The Gorkha invasion of 1803 had already forced the ruling family to cede much of the kingdom, and the subsequent decade of Nepalese occupation left local minting irregular and administratively fragmented. The Girvan Yuddha designation refers to the reigning Nepalese Shah king under whose nominal authority these pieces were struck — a political reality that made Garhwal's own coinage, in effect, a colonial issue produced on occupied soil.