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29. The Date of the Salimi Coins. 
By H. Beveripesr. 
Taylor in the oe ee ere Supplement to the Journ. 
high ae Beng. for 1904, 68, thinks that the Salimi coins 
cannot have been issued daring the reign of Akbar, as Jehangir 
never was governor of Gujarat, and as his rebellion did not exte md 
to Ahmadabad, The first of these gb fabs is probably techni- 
cally correct, for it does not appear that Prince Salim was ever 
formally made governor of Gujarat. But it niles seems certain that 
in hisown name. We are told in the Mirat Ahmadi, p. 193 
the Bombay lithograph, that Salim, in the year 1011 (1602 rs 
received a grant of a lakh of rupees out of the collections of the 
port of Cambay; and the Maasir-l-Umara, in the notice of Farid 
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citadel, as his servants had gone off to Gujarat (a name which 
often means Ahmadabad) which had been recently given to him in 
fief (tiyal) 
The aise motive for this request was to protect Salim 
from being assaulted by the partizans of Khusrau, but the 
appointment looks as if Akbar had wished Ne es es range to 
a distant province, in the interests of Su Khusra is 
descendant Aurangzeb acted in a similar manner when ie sent 
away, when he was dying, his son A’zam Shah to Malwa lest 
he should interfere with Kam Bakhsh Tt is true that Azizko ka 
Gujarat. At all events he seems to have | een a special seletion 
gave on the third year of his reign; appeal o imply this 
It seems to me exceedingly scpeaede pe Jehangir would, 
after his accession, use the name Salim on his coins; and it is 
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Prince was de facto governor of Gujarat, or because he was a 
rebel. I note with reference to p. 71 of Dr. Taylor's article that 
Jehangir ascended the throne on the 20th and not the Sth Jumada 
II. Akbar did not die till the 10th of that month. 
