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The Indian Currency Committee or Fowler Committee was a government committee appointed by the British-run Government of India on 29 April 1898 to examine the currency situation in India. [29] They collected a wide range of testimony, examined as many as forty-nine witnesses, and only reported their conclusions in July 1899, after more than a ...
The new Dominion (or Union) of India retained the previous imperial currency with the portrait of King George VI. The basic unit of currency was the Indian rupee , which was itself divided into annas (16 annas to a rupee) and pice (the old spelling of paisa – 64 pice to a rupee). [ 9 ]
The Indian rupee was a silver-based currency during much of the 19th century, which had severe consequences on the standard value of the currency, as stronger economies were on the gold standard. During British rule, and the first decade of independence, the rupee was subdivided into 16 annas .
1835 East India Company quarter anna, part of the unified coinage introduced that year 1840 East India Company rupee. It was minted in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras. The English East India Company was granted a royal charter by Queen Elizabeth I which allowed trade monopoly with eastern countries including Sumatra, Java, and India.
Indian rupee symbol in graphic form. The new sign is a combination of the Devanagari letter र ("ra") and the Latin capital letter R without its vertical bar. The parallel lines at the top (with white space between them) makes an allusion to the tricolour Indian flag and also depict an equality sign that symbolizes the nation's desire to reduce economic disparity.
Extant evidence of the earliest Metal currency in the South and East of India is later than the North West, [21] and coeval with the Northern Black Polished Ware culture, minted before the Maurya Empire (322–185 BCE), [23] with radio carbon dating indicating post 5th century BCE dates. [21]
National currency: Indian Rupee [52] 15 August 1947 [3] 15 July 2010 (symbol) [52] Indian rupee (ISO code: INR) is the official currency of India, the issuance of which is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India. [53] Rupee is derived from rupya or rūpiya, which was used to denote various coins in usage since 4th century BCE. [54]
The Indian 20-rupee coin (₹ 20) is a denomination of the Indian rupee. The ₹20 coin is the highest-denomination circulation coin minted in India since its introduction in 2019. The present ₹20 coin is released for circulation. The release of the coin was supposed to be in March 2020, but it was shifted to May 2020 because of the COVID-19 ...