Qutub Shahi Coins in the State Museum

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Foreword This catalogue on the Qutub Shahi coins, is the third of the series of Publications on the coins, that are available in the Government Museum at Hyderabad, the other two being a catalogue on the Punch-marked coins of the Government Museum, Hyderabad by Sri Parameshwari Lal Gupta, M.A, Ph.D. and a catalogue on the Satavahana coins by Dr. M. Rama Rao.

Introduction With the fall of the Satavahana dynatsy in the 3rd century A. D. the solidarity maintained by it in the Deccan broke and South India was again split up into many small principalities. It was again under Pulakesin II. that the Deccan came to be united and more particularly under his brother Kubja Vishnu Vardhana some kind of political unity was brought about in coastal Andhra. This Eastern Chalukyan dynasty also came to an end in the 12th century A.D and again a period of political disintegration followed. Later on, the suzerainty in the Deccan was divided among three dynasties of the south viz. the Yadavas of Deva- giri, the Hoyasala Ballalas of Dwarasamudra and the Kakatiyas of Warangal. The Kakatiyas of Warangal were famous rulers who ruled over the whole of Andara Desa between 12th and 13th centuries. Under the Kakatiyas the Andhra emerged out as a separate cultural unit. Andhras owe much to the Kakatiyas. particularly to Rudra Deva, Rudrama Devi, and Pratapa Rudra Deva under whom their cul- ture reached its zenith. But this great political unit was broken again by the Tughlaq invasions in 1323 and Kakatiya empire fell. The fall of the Kakatiyas, the Yadavas and Ballalas gave a shattering blow to the Deccan solidarity.