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4.5 Indian Rupee as exchange rate anchor. ... Download QR code; Print/export Download as PDF; ... Qatar Saudi Arabia ...
To the middle of the 20th century, the Indian rupee was also used as the official currency in the emirates on the eastern Arabian Peninsula, namely Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the Trucial States, and Oman. That meant, in effect, that the Indian rupee was the common currency in those territories as well as in India.
Until 1966, Qatar used the Indian rupee as its currency, in the form of Gulf rupees. When India devalued the rupee in 1966, Qatar, along with the other states using the Gulf rupee, chose to introduce its own currency. [2] Before doing so, Qatar briefly adopted the Saudi riyal, then introduced the Qatar and Dubai riyal following the signing of ...
In 1966, India devalued the rupee, prompting Qatar, Dubai, and all the Trucial States with the exception of Abu Dhabi, to introduce a new riyal unit at par with the pre-devaluation rupee. Abu Dhabi instead chose to adopt the Bahraini dinar, and in 1973 it changed to the United Arab Emirates dirham in line with the rest of the sheikdoms in the UAE .
This is a list of tables showing the historical timeline of the exchange rate for the Indian rupee (INR) against the special drawing rights unit (SDR), United States dollar (USD), pound sterling (GBP), Deutsche mark (DM), euro (EUR) and Japanese yen (JPY). The rupee was worth one shilling and sixpence in sterling in 1947.
ISO 4217 code Country or dependency (administrating country) Currency symbol Saudi riyal [1] SAR Saudi Arabia [2] Algerian dinar: DZD Algeria: دج (Arabic) or DA (Latin) Bahraini dinar [3] BHD Bahrain.د.ب [4] Iraqi dinar [5] IQD Iraq: ع.د [6] Jordanian dinar [7] JOD Jordan: ينار [8] Kuwaiti dinar [9] KWD Kuwait: ك [9] Tunisian dinar ...
The inaugural Qatar issue on 1 April 1957 was twelve British definitives from the Wilding series and three higher value "Castles" commemoratives. All were overprinted QATAR and surcharged with a value in Indian currency ranging from 1 naya paisa (1np) to 10 Indian rupees (10r). The currency of Qatar at the time was 100 naye paise = 1 rupee. [5]
Since 1991, the rupee has been under a floating exchange rate regime. [94] The first major impact on the rupee's exchange rate after independence was the devaluation of the pound sterling against the US dollar in 1949, which impacted currencies that maintained a peg to the sterling, which included the Indian rupee. [95]