IDENTIFIERS
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id:	141276
accession number:	CM.1182-2009

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 15 January 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The princely state of Kodagu, or Coorg, now part of modern Karnataka in India, became an ally of the British in India due to the threat posed by Tipu Sultan, King of Mysore, who had occupied the country three times and been repelled twice. In 1799 Kodagu was afforded the protection of the British East India Co., but in 1820 the young Vira Raja succeeded, and his liquidation of his family rivals and other actions which could be considered treasonable led to a British intervention in force in 1834, after which the state was formally annexed by the Company.
One of the effects of the Company take-over was that taxes were now paid in money rather than in kind, and this seems to have been the cause behind a rising by the Gauda people in Kanara, a province of Kodagu. The rising met with little success due to the loyalty of the Kodavas to British rule. This loyalty was immediately rewarded by the East India Company with this issue of this medal, of which about 250 were struck, to the loyal people of the Kanara area.
The medals were issued unnamed, and so the recipient's identity is unknown. Lester Watson purchased the medal at some point before 1928.
title:	Coorg Medal

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Gift of L. Hoyt Watson; ex Lester Watson Collection, bt before 1928


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Coins and Medals
collection:	Lester Watson Collection
creditline: Given by Lester Watson through Cambridge in America, 2009

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/141276





TECHNIQUES
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struck

CATEGORIES
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category: medal

DATING
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creation date:	1837 - 1837
creation date earliest:	1837
creation date latest:	1837

CREATORS
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maker: Calcutta
maker: East India Company
maker: Victoria (1837-1901)

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: mm
value: 50.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 50.41



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Images of Empire: The British Empire on 19th century medals
title:	Imagery of War
CITATIONS
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British Battles and Medals 7th edn
British and other Campaign and Gallantry Medals From the Collection of Lester Watson (d. 1959)
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