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usurped the Kingdom of Jaunpur, fled to Gondwana after being 

 expelled and being refused an asylum first in Gwaliar and then 

 in Malwa. 



During the years 970-978 a.h. (1561-1570) Baz Bahadur, 

 son of Shuja' Khan Sher Shah's Governor, was in hiding in 

 Gondwana. He had assumed independence and been defeated 

 by Akbar. Perhaps coins like Nos. 3, 4, 14, 15 may be con- 

 nected with this period. 



In 1564 Chauragarh in Western Gondwana was sacked by 

 one of Akbar's Generals and five years later Malwa was an- 

 nexed and made a subah of the Empire. The modern Balaghat 

 was part of the Garha Sarkar. 1 At this time perhaps were 

 issued Nos. 6 and 7/ 



I have been able to find nothing more recorded of Gond- 

 wana until Jahanglr's time, when the 'Ain-i-Akbarf records 

 " From the time of Akbar's death the Kings of the Dakhin had 

 been restless and Malik 'Ambar had seized upon several places 

 in the Balaghat district.* " 



Balaghat appears to have been a centre of operations until 

 this trouble was finally settled in the 11th year of Jahanglr 

 1025 a.h. when Malik ' Ambar s "handed oVer the keys of 

 Ahmadnagar and other forts, together with the parganas of 

 Balaghat which he had conquered." 



Conjectures based on find spots are notoriously hazar- 

 dous, but perhaps we may infer that a large hoard of small 

 copper coins like this was not likely to be carried far from the 

 districts in which the coins were current. These were prob- 

 ably then the current coins of Gondwana from soon after the 

 occupation of Malwa by Bahadur of Gujarat in 1530 a.d. 

 Mahmud Shah III of Gujarat, to whom No. 2 belongs, began 

 his reign in 1537. Gujarat influence in Gondwana during this 

 period may be surmised until about 1570 ( = 978 a.h.). Soon 

 after this the Akbari coins must have come and continued to 

 be struck perhaps until the coming of the Mahratas. 



It may be noticed that whereas the Gujarat and Malwa 

 elements in these coins have become very confused, in very few 

 if any cases were the Akbari inscriptions beyond recognition 

 though they frequently appeared with a Gujarat type obverse 

 or reverse. The date of the deposit might perhaps be conjec- 

 tured to be about the end of Jahanglr's reign. 





C. J. Brown. 



l/ucknow 



* It is called Sarkar Kanauj in 'Ain-i Akbari, vol. II, p. 199, but I 

 liink this must be a mistake There is no place Kanauj in the Sarkar, 

 and on p. 196 he mentions Garha as a separate state. 

 * 'Ain-i Akbari, Vol. 1 , p. 412. 

 S ,, ,, Vol. 1 , p. 33G. 



