The Foundation of Muslim Rule in India: A History of the Establishment and Progress of the Turkish Sultanate of Delhi, 1206–1290 A.D. c18.89

c18.89

The Memeluke currency showed expert planning and adjustment. It was skilfully incorporated into the Indian weight-standard and made large concessions to the people's notions and circumstances. As a measure of the ability of the Delhi financiers it would be observed, the relative value of the currency pieces remained steady throughout the century. The following table, summarising the points discussed above, will show that the silver tankah was the central coin which ruled all other metal denominations, although, as Nevill and Wright point out, the monetary standard was tri-metallic, the intrinsic value of the pieces governing their token relationship with each other.