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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 986012, member: 19463&quot;]I have seen quite a bit of bad feelings on the South Asian Yahoolist stemming from the release of Krause Publications digital catalogs calling the modern coins of India and surrounding regions &quot;Central Asian&quot;.&nbsp; Their point is that that term is appropriate for places farther north like Uzbekistan but not for India and what I have always called South East Asia.&nbsp; Making matters worse it appears that Krause won&#039;t address the question reminding me of a level I&#039;ve seen from friends from some places in the UK that get really riled when they are called &#039;English&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>As a collector of ancient and medieval coins from the region (before anyone invented the country names and boundries we see today) this seems much ado about nothing but I gather there is an opportunity to be politically incorrect here without meaning to be offensive.&nbsp; Can someone discuss what is considered the proper compass point subdivisions of Asia both modern and ancient? (I assume China and Japan are &#039;East&#039; but after that there are questions). What is the border between South and Central?&nbsp; What should I call coins of the Shahis of Kabul and only slightly later Delhi?&nbsp; What part of Asia did the Sasanians and Hephthalites rule?&nbsp; It is hard to draw divisions that hold up over three thousand years of history but Krause seems to have managed to stir up trouble in a catalog that covers very little in the way of time.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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