• Dr. Sukhwinder Kalsi

Coins are generally used as a tool for unraveling the economic history particularly trade and monetization. It is now being considered as an important ancillary source in political history not only to reconstruct the chronology but to understand the nature of the state also. Not much attention has been paid to study the coins in context of social and cultural history. Symbols, figures, decorative designs and not least, the inscriptions found on different series of Indian coins help us to form an idea of the society. Hence certain coinages if studied minutely may play the role of cultural document as they reflect the socio-cultural aspects of a people at some length. Coins of the northeast India fall under this genre of document. In the present paper I have tried to use the coins as a source for the study of the position of the women in the northeast society.

Women, Status, Matriarchal, Depiction.

"Status of Women as gleaned through coins in the medieval northeasts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 7, page no.1161-1168, July-2016, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701580.pdf

"Status of Women as gleaned through coins in the medieval northeasts", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.3, Issue 7, page no. pp1161-1168, July-2016, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1701580.pdf