The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c18.52

c18.52

ly Indian, is, besides the name, the weight standard which, as Thomas had shown, followed the indigenous practice. The Memeluke *tankah*, meant to be divisible by the 32-*rati purana*, to which weight the older *dehliwala* approximated, was planned to contain 1 *tola* or 96 *ratis* of silver, this being equal, according to Messrs. Wright and Nevill, not to 175 as Thomas thought, but 172·8 grains. The subsequent gold *tankah* also was adjusted to this standard weight, of which Muizzuddin’s above mentioned Indian *dinar* was perhaps an anticipation.