James Prinsep: The Father of Numismatics

James Prinsep: The Father of Numismatics

Iqbal Ahmad It would certainly look unbelievable, born in 1799, perished in 1840 (total age 40 years) and in his few matured years of this little age, he became the father of twin disciplines of Indian numismatics and Indian palaeography. I am talking about a 19th-century English scholar James Prinsep, a rare genius scholar who, in this little age, became the first expert to decode Indian ancient scripts and coins. Usually, the colonial period o…