خلاصه ماشینی:
ON THE MARGIN THE ISLE OF THE ARABS HE INFLUENCE of climate and other geographical factors upon man and his social organisation has been recognised from early times.
In the present article, we propose co consider the location of Arabia, the various aspects of chat location and their general effect on the racial, his• torical and commercial development of rhe Arabs.
The well-defined natural location of Arabia, in which the sea and deserts act as effective barriers and guarantee a marked degree of isolation, has tended to hold the people, as it were, in an em• brace, guarded them against excessive outside interference and infusion of foreign blood and thus enabled them to develop their peculiar racial type and national character.
The first five couplets record the erection of a mint at Surat during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Ahmad Shah while Safdar Khan was Nawab of Surat and Sidi Yaqut was in charge of the management of the mint in the year 1165 A.
The remaining three couplets mention repairs of the mint by the Mughal vicegerent Nizam ad-Din Khan.
He says : "When the East India Company commenced striking their own coins in Bombay, they made use of the Surat Mughal rupee as model.
In any case it is certain that the mint was re• paired under the supervision of Nizam ad-Din Khan (who was appointed Nawab of Surat in 1790), most probably under the directions of the Bombay Government.