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Coins Of Colonial Power
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Danish India : The Danes made their first appearance in India in 1618, when the Dansk Ostindisk Compagni (Danish East India Company) started operating under a royal Danish charter. They reached an agreement with the Nayaka of Tanjore, receiving the port of Tranquebar and some surrounding area on an annual payment of 4,000 rupees. By the following year the Danish castle of Dansborg had been built. Although the Danes subsequently did establish a few other settlements, Tranquebar remained their headquarters and their only mint operated there. The Danes did not get involved in Indian politics at all, so they did not get drawn into any of the conflicts that raged in the country, but in 1807 Britain went to war with Denmark and British troops seized Tranquebar. Although it was restored to Denmark in 1814, the Danes eventually sold all their Indian possessions (which had included the Andaman and Nicobar Islands) to the British.

Dutch India : The Dutch started trading in India in 1596 and within a few years a number of different companies were formed to trade with the East. In 1602, they were all combined into a single company, the Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie (United East India Company, known by its acronym VOC), which was granted a 21-year monopoly on trade with India. The company quickly established factories in numerous locations and by the middle of the 17th century the Dutch dominated the European trade. During their heyday, they operated a number of mints in India, in Cochin, Masulipattam, Nagapatam (or Negapatam), Pondicherry, and Pulicat, where they issued coins modeled on the local coinages.However, wars in Europe and the aggressive actions of the other European powers in India broke this dominance and by the early 19th century the Dutch had lost all their possessions in the country.

British India : British rule in India advanced in stages - in 1757, the East India Company forces won the Battle of Plassey, in 1767, when the company was granted the right to collect revenue in Bengal and Bihar or 1818, when the EIC defeated the Maratha forces. East India Company controlled/ruled India up to 1858, after which India was governed directly by the British Crown.

Up to 1835, different presidencies of British India - Calcutta, Madras and Bombay, used to issue their own coins - in the name of Mughal emperor Shah Jahan. From 1835-1947, India followed a uniform coinage system, with coins featuring the British ruler (William IIII, followed by Victoria, Edward VII, George V and George VI).

These coins were originally minted in three mints - Calcutta, Bombay and Madras - with their own mint marks. The Madras mint was shut down in 1869, while a new mint was set up in Lahore in the 1940s.

British Index :-
Madras Presidency
Bombay Presidency
Bengal Presidency
Imperial Series

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