[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of the Qaraunah Turks in India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936) › c8.122 # History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.122 History of the Qaraunah Turks in India c8.122 - **Language:** English ### [c8.122](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.122) The new coin became legal tender along with the other circulating media, but the state failed to make the issue of the new coins a monopoly of its own. The result was, as the contemporary chronicler observes in right orthodox fashion, that the house of every Hindu was turned into a mint, and the Hindus in the various provinces coined lakhs and crores of such coins.⁵⁹ Forgery was freely practised; and the people paid their taxes in the new coin and purchased horses, arms, fine apparels, and other valuable articles. The - [Previous: c8.121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.121) - [Next: c8.123](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.123) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.122](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.prasad-1936.c8.122) · Pramāṇa