{"id":2551,"date":"2025-05-03T22:02:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/?p=2551"},"modified":"2025-05-03T22:02:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T16:32:37","slug":"q-in-medieval-india-the-term-fanam-referred-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/upsc\/q-in-medieval-india-the-term-fanam-referred-to","title":{"rendered":"Q. In medieval India, the term \u201cFanam\u201d referred to:"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list mcq\">\n<li>Clothing<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coins<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ornaments<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Weapons<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Answer:<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>(b) Coins<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"notes-hd-6815ba442b440\">Notes:<\/h5>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Coins were called by popular names such as : anna, cash, dhinglo, dokdo, doudou, dub, escudo, fanam, faruqi, karshapara, kas, kon, mohur, naya paisa, pagoda, panam, pice, pie, rupia, suvarna, tanga, and tanka<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/coinage-in-india-upsc\/\">fanam<\/a>\u00a0was a small coin used in south India between the 9th and 19th centuries<\/strong>. These small gold coins weighed as little as 0.3 grams and had a diameter of less than a centimetre.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Also Read:&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/coinage-in-india-upsc\/\">Coinage in India<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:&nbsp;(b) Coins Notes: Also Read:&nbsp;Coinage in India<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[41],"years":[51],"class_list":["post-2551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upsc","category-prelims","tag-medieval-history","years-51"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"UPSC"},{"value":3,"label":"Prelims"}],"post_tag":[{"value":41,"label":"Medieval History"}],"years":[{"value":51,"label":"2022"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"LotusArise","author_link":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/author\/team-lotusarise"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"UPSC","slug":"upsc","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":1269,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":1269,"category_description":"","cat_name":"UPSC","category_nicename":"upsc","category_parent":0},{"term_id":3,"name":"Prelims","slug":"prelims","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":1,"count":1251,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":1251,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Prelims","category_nicename":"prelims","category_parent":1}],"tag_info":[{"term_id":41,"name":"Medieval History","slug":"medieval-history","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":41,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":38,"filter":"raw"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2551"},{"taxonomy":"years","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lotusarise.com\/qna\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/years?post=2551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}