Fanam (other)
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Fanam was the currency used historically in major parts of South India, especially during the British Raj. Fanam is the anglicized form of the native word , meaning "coin" or "wealth" (punch marked coins). It may specifically refer to: *Madras fanam, a currency issued in Madras Presidency, now part of Tamil Nadu, India *Travancore fanam, a currency issued in Travancore State, now part of Kerala, India See also * Panam (other) * Fana (other) *Pana (other) Pana or PANA may refer to: *Pana (mythology), a god in Inuit religion *PANA, in telecommunications, a Plain ANAlog loop Alarm circuit *Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access, a network access authentication protocol *Pana, used fo ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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South India
South India, also known as Dakshina Bharata or Peninsular India, consists of the peninsular southern part of India. It encompasses the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, and Telangana, as well as the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry, comprising 19.31% of India's area () and 20% of India's population. Covering the southern part of the peninsular Deccan Plateau, South India is bounded by the Bay of Bengal in the east, the Arabian Sea in the west and the Indian Ocean in the south. The geography of the region is diverse with two mountain ranges – the Western and Eastern Ghats – bordering the plateau heartland. The Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Tungabhadra, Periyar, Bharathappuzha, Pamba, Thamirabarani, Palar, and Vaigai rivers are important perennial rivers. The majority of the people in South India speak at least one of the four major Dravidian languages: Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada (all 4 of which are among the 6 Classic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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British Raj
The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himself employed by the British East India company from the age of seventeen until the British government assumed direct rule over India in 1858." * * and lasted from 1858 to 1947. * * The region under British control was commonly called India in contemporaneous usage and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and areas ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British paramountcy, called the princely states. The region was sometimes called the Indian Empire, though not officially. As ''India'', it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San F ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Punch Marked Coins
Punch-marked coins, also known as ''Aahat coins'', are a type of early coinage of India, dating to between about the 6th and 2nd centuries BC. It was of irregular shape. History The study of the relative chronology of these coins has successfully established that the first punch-marked coins initially only had one or two punches, with the number of punches increasing over time. The first coins in India may have been minted around the 6th century BC by the Mahajanapadas of the Indo-Gangetic Plain. 19th-century proposals which suggested an origin from as early as 1000 BC, independent of the introduction of coins in Asia Minor, are "no longer given any credence". Silver coins were certainly being produced in the Achaemenid Satrapy of Gandāra, by the mid-4th century BC, before the Indian campaign of Alexander the Great, in 327 BC, as Plutarch noted Taxiles (Ambhi) of Taxila exchanged coined tribute with Alexander. According to Joe Cribb, Indian punch-marked coins go back to the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Madras Fanam
The fanam (or panam in the local language of Tamil) was a currency issued by the Madras Presidency until 1815. It circulated alongside the Indian rupee, also issued by the Presidency. The fanam was a small silver coin, subdivided into 80 copper ''cash'', with the gold ''pagoda'' worth 42 fanams. The rupee was worth 12 fanams. After 1815, only coins of the rupee currency system were issued. Conversion Table Fanams were also issued in Travancore, worth 1/7 of a rupee, whilst in Danish India the ''fano'' was issued, worth 1/8 rupee, and in French India the ''fanon'' was issued, worth 1/8 rupee. See also * French Indian rupee * Danish Indian rupee * Portuguese Indian rupia The rupia was the currency of Portuguese India sometime after 1668 until 1958. Prior to 1668, the currency unit was ''Xerafim'' (''xerafin'', ''xeraphin''). In 1666, the Portuguese administration struck a silver coin calling it double ''xerafi ... References Modern obsolete currencies Coins of Indi ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Travancore Fanam
The Travancore Fanam was a type of money that was issued by the State of Travancore, now mainly a part of Kerala in South India. The Fanams (also spelt ''Fanoms'') and Chuckrams (or ''Chakrams'') were known to be some of the smallest coins in the world. The word Fanam appears to be an Anglo-Germanic sound shift from the word ''Panam'', which means money in Dravidian languages. Historically, the Fanam and Chuckram coins were the regular unit of currency in medieval Travancore and appear to have been extensively used for trading in the region of South India. The words Fanam and ''Panam'' literally mean money and are still used as a synonym for wealth in Kerala in the native language of Malayalam. History The ''Panam'' (English: Fanam) coins were part of the traditional coinage of Kerala, and the time from when these coins were issued is not known. The ''Panam'' coins rose in popularity some time in the 13th century CE and remained one of the most popular currencies in circulati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Panam (other)
Panam may refer to: * ''Panam'' (film), a 1952 Tamil film *Panam (money), a type of currency issued in South India *Pan Am, a former American airline * ''Pan Am'' (TV series), a 2011 television series * University of Texas–Pan American, an American university * Bainang County, or Panam, a county in Tibet *Panam, Afghanistan, a village in Afghanistan *Panam station, a metro station in Daejeon, South Korea *Panam Palmer, a character in '' Cyberpunk 2077'' See also *Paname, informal name of Paris *Pan Am (other) *Pan-American (other) Pan-American, Pan American, Panamerican, Pan-America, Pan America or Panamerica may refer to: * Collectively, the Americas: North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean * Something of, from, or related to the Americas * Pan-Amer ... *Panem, a country in the fictional world of ''The Hunger Games'' * Panama (other) {{dab ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fana (other)
Fana is a borough of the city of Bergen, Vestland county, Norway. Fana or fanaa may also refer to: * Fana (Sufism), the Sufi term for "annihilation of the self" People * Saint Fana (c. 354–395), Egyptian Christian hermit * Anwar Farrukhabadi or "Fana" (1928–2011), Indian Sufi poet Surname * Fana-Khusrau (fl. 1040), son of the Buyid amir Majd al-Dawla of Iran * Abu Ali Fana-Khusrau (died 1094), son of the Buyid ruler Abu Kalijar * Frozan Fana (born 1969), Afghan physician and politician * Hailu Fana (born 1967), Ethiopian cyclist * Jonathan Faña (born 1987), Dominican footballer * Karim Aït-Fana (born 1989), French-Moroccan footballer * Mohammad Jan Fana (born 1932), Afghan poet, writer, and artist * Mzonke Fana (born 1973), South African boxer * (born 1966), television presenter; see 2009 Anugerah Bintang Popular Given name * Fana Ashby (born 1981), Trinidadian sprinter * Fana Hlongwane, South African politician and businessman * Fana Kochovska (1927–2004), Mac ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |