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prove the hypothesis brought forward by Mr. Long- 
worth Dames that the ‘Ali Gauhar coins were 
struck in the lifetime of that prince’s father, 
‘Alamgi II. 
It is thus evident that Jahangir is but one of at least oe 
Emperors whose coins bear the sovereign’s oe ame. So far 
am aware, no one has suggested that the Khurram or Mu‘ na Ea 
or ‘Ali Gauhar rupees were issued by these ions while in 
rebellion. But if in each of these three cases the coins were 
those not of a rebel prince but of a reigning emperor, one nee 
not shrink from the supposition that the Salimi coins too were 
issued not by the Prince Salim but by the Emperor Jahangir. 
Mr. Beveridge sets much store by the fact that cau Prince 
Salim had large interests in the province of Guj 
se, a man of wealth, and quite ig @ con- 
siderable portion of it came from this “ Garden of India.” But 
ow does all this bear on the Salimi coins? If the prince 
ever was, Pehio ch I very much donbt, de facto governor of Gujarat, 
and even if he held the province in fief, he would not thereby 
have been entitled to issue coins in his own name. Such action 
on his part would at once have constituted him a rebel, and, had 
he ventured on it during his father’s lifetime, the autocratic 
Akbar would have insisted on knowing the reason why. In the 
whole Saisie of Indian Mughal numismatics there is nota si ingle 
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simply as rebel. Yet of any rebellio’n in Ahmadabad, fomen 
im the interests of Salim, the histories supply not a word. His 
do Mogor” (Vol -L, p. 131) this rebellion is a in the 
terms :— “Ja hangir, then a south (he was about thirty- 
two) allowed himself, in spite of his natural goodness, to be led 
astray by the soft words of traitors, and rose against his 
father, ins o.2 that Fortune, abandoning Akbar, would transfer 
h is side, But it was not so. Akbar wis able to make 
such ait that in a short time Jahangi: was take" a prisoner.” 
Clearly then the revolt was shortlived. That it »«xtended at any 
time to the distant Ahmadabad we have no evidence what- 
soever. It shonld further be remember’d in this connexion 
that several of the Salimi coins bear the date 2. |f these rupees 
really were issued by a rebel prince, we are si:ut uy to the con- 
clusion that at the time of their issue the rebe!li» was already 
in its second year. Of a revolt thus protracte) some mention 
would assuredly have been made in the ‘sistovies of Gujarat, 
yet not a hint of it is forthcoming Ove muy then safely 
relegate to the domain of fiction Salim’s rebellion in \bmadabad, 
and with it we may, I feel sure, also consig: his de facto 
