PUBLICATION
Publications
In the earlier years, the Society seems to have taken a very keen interest in the preparation of the lists or catalogues of collections lying in various museums and with the private collectors. The important published catalogues are Catalogue of Coins in the Lahore Museum, Catalogue of Gupta Coins in the British Museum, Catalogue of the Provincial Cabinet of Eastern Bengal & Assam Coins, Catalogue of Mughal coins, A Catalogue of coins of Indian States, Catalogue of Coins in the Bharat Itihasa Samsodhaka Mandal, Catalogue of Indian Coins in the British Museum, etc.Along with that contributions of the numismatists were published in the Numismatic Supplement of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal or in the pages of the Numismatic Chronicle of London. In 1911, it was decided that the Numismatic Society of India was to appoint its editor, collect papers for publication, and the Asiatic Society was to publish the Supplements and supply copies to the Numismatic Society of India to distribute among its members. The above agreement between the Asiatic Society and the Numismatic Society did not continue for a long period. At the annual meeting of the Numismatic Society of India held at Calcutta on 26th December 1938 the following resolutions were moved from the Chair and passed unanimously:
“Resolved that henceforth the Journal of the Numismatic Society of India be published independently as the Journal of the Numismatic Society of India.”
After that, the society has started a series of publications under the categories of Numismatic Notes & Monograph, Memoirs, Bibliography, Special and occasional Publication, & Index. The society also decided to publish a Corpus of Indian Coins in ten Volumes. Dr. Altekar produced Volume IV in 1957 under the title, The Coinage of the Gupta empire.
The Society is promoting the research in regional languages and its members felt the necessity of publication in Indian languages. Some publications came under this by the effort of the individual members.
Further, the Society aims to publish a newsletter in every trimester of a year to fabricate the current development and share the information among its members. The newsletter will be the face of the society where each issue will document work done by associated institutions and the achievement of members.
NSI Publications
Numismatic Notes & Monograph:
In 1954, the Society decided to publish a Numismatic Notes and Monograph series. This series of the NSI generally started as a supplement in the Journal of the Numismatic Society of India, devoted to bibliographies, coin lists, inventories, indices, and specialized essays, and other useful handy material relating to Indian coins, medals, seals, and allied subjects. In this series, the following 22 titles have been published so far in the editorial ship of the stalwarts of the discipline like V.S. Agrawala, A. K. Narain, P.L. Gupta, C. R. Singhal, Lallanji Gopal, J. P. Singh, Upendra Thakur, T.P. Verma, etc:
NNM 1: The Coin Types of Indo-Greek King by A.K. Narain
NNM 2: A Bibliography of the Hoards of Punch-Market Coins of Ancient India by Parameshwari Lal Gupta
NNM 3: The Bactrian Treasure of Qndoz by A.D.H. Bivar
NNM 5: The Coin-Types of Saka-Pahlava Kings of India by G.K. Jenkins and A.K. Narain
NNM 6: Inventory of the Hoards and Finds of Coins and Seals From Madhya Pradesh by Bal Chandra Jain
NNM 7: List of Published Satavahana Coins by M. Rama Rao
NNM 8: The Coin Types of Kings with Mitra-Ending Names by Bela Lahiri
NNM 9: The Stratigraphic Evidence of Coins in Indian Excavations and Some Allied Issues by S.C. Ray
NNM 10: The Gold Coin-Types of the Great Kushanas by Major Allen H. Wood III
NNM 11: A Survey of Indian Numismatography by J.N. Tiwari and P.L. Gupta
Memoirs:
The Society also published on its own some valuable monographs despite the very limited resources at its disposal. The publication of memoire started in 1914. The list of the published monograph is as follows:
M1. The Coins of Tipu Sultan of Mysore by Rev, G.P. Taylor
M2. Historical Studies in Mughal Numismatic S.H. Hodiwala (Reprint)
M3. The technique of Casting Coins in Ancient India by B. Sahni
M4. Mint Towns of the Mughal Emperors of India by C.R. Singhal
M5. Saka-Pahlava Coinage by K. Walton Dobbins
M6. Coins and Early Indian Economy Ed. by A.M. Shastri
M7. Coinage and Economy of North Eastern States of India Ed. by Jai Prakash Singh and Nisar Ahmad
M8. Foreign Elements in Indian Indigenous Coins: Ed. by Ajay Mitra Shastri.
Bibliography :
A need for a Bibliography of Indian coins was felt at the beginning of Society. Accordingly, some publications came in this series and are listed below:
B 1. Bibliography of Indian Coins: By C.R. Singhal.
Vol. I, Non-Muhammadan Series
Vol. II, Muhammadan and later Series
B 2. Bibliography of Indian Coins Part I (Ancient Period)
First Supplement (up to 1960) by P.L. Gupta
B 3. Bibliography of Indian Coins: Pt. II
(Medieval and Modern) First Supplement (1952-60)
by C.R. Singhal and P.L. Gupta
B 4. Bibliography of Indian Numismatics: Part I
(Ancient India, 1961-1970) by P.L. Gupta
Bibliography of Indian Numismatics: Part. II
(Medieval and Modern, 1961-1970) by P.L. Gupta
B 5. Bibliography of Indian Numismatics: Part I
(Ancient India, 1971-1980) by S.J. Mangalam
Bibliography of Indian Numismatics: Part II
(Medieval and Modern, 1971-1980) by P. P. Kulkarni
B 6. Bibliography of Indian Numismatics: Part I
(Ancient India): D. Raja Reddy
Special Publications:
NSI being a grand old institution of India carries the history of more than a century. Members of the Society along with the office bearers celebrated the historical movements of the society at a large scale. Some important publications were also released in memory of such events as Golden Jubilee, Silver Jubilee, Diamond jubilee, Centenary, etc. To commemorate the important members of the Society, it dedicated some volumes of JNSI also to them. The list of such noted publications is given below:
SP 1: Catalogue of the Gupta Gold Coins in the Bayana Hoard by A. S. Altekar.
SP 2: Sixty Years of the Numismatic Society of India (1910-1971) History and Presidential Addresses by P. L. Gupta.
SP 3: Studies in Indian Numismatics by P.N. Singh & M. Naseem (Centenary Publication)
SP 4: Survey of Numismatics Studies in India Languages by P. N. Singh & M. Naseem (Centenary Publication)
SP 5: 100 years of the Numismatics Society of India (1910-2009) Part-I: by M. Naseem
SP 6: 100 years of the Numismatics Society of India (1910-2009) Part-II: by J.P. Singh, P. N. Singh, M. Naseem
SP 7: Memorabilia Part-I: by P.N. Singh, A.K.Upadhyay, Vinay Kr. Singh (On the occasion of Centenary Conference)
SP 8: Proceedings of the Numismatics Society of India Part –I: by M. Naseem, D. B. Singh, A.K. Upadhyay (On the occasion of Centenary Conference)
Index:
To facilitate the readers of the Journal of Numismatic Society of India, the society publishes Index. Generally, it contains a list of articles of ten volumes of the journal. It is mainly divided into two parts: Subject & Author. Five Indexes are published yet by the following authors:
I 1: Vol. I to X by P.L. Gupta
I 2: Vol. XI to XX by Sudha Narain
I 3: Vol. XXI to XXX by Deen Bandhu Bandey
I 4: Vol. XXXI to XL by P. N. Singh
I 5: Vol. XLI to L by M. Naseem and S.L. Srivastava
I 6: Vol. LI to LXX by Amit Kumar Upadhyay