1 Cash

The Nawabs of the Carnatic occupied an increasingly uncomfortable position through the 18th century — nominally Mughal vassals, effectively clients of the British East India Company after Clive's interventions, and perpetually contested by the French through Dupleix's campaigns in the Deccan. Small copper cash of this type circulated through that entire turbulent period, spanning the tenures of multiple nawabs from Saadatullah Khan through to the final years before the British formally abolished the nawabdom in 1801 following Muhammad Ali Khan's death and the lapsing of the subsidiary alliance.