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The Gandhi Series of banknotes are issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the legal tender of Indian rupee. The series is so called because the obverse of the banknotes prominently display the portrait of Mahatma Gandhi. Since its introduction in 1996, this series replaced all Lion Capital Series banknotes issued before 1996. The Reserve ...
In Europe, Romain Rolland was the first to discuss Gandhi in his 1924 book Mahatma Gandhi, and Brazilian anarchist and feminist Maria Lacerda de Moura wrote about Gandhi in her work on pacifism. In 1931, physicist Albert Einstein exchanged letters with Gandhi and called him "a role model for the generations to come" in a letter writing about ...
Lion Capital Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed between 1962 and 2000. Mahatma Gandhi Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed between 1996 and 2018. Mahatma Gandhi New Series: Banknotes of the Indian rupee printed from 2016 to present.
The Mahatma Gandhi New Series of banknotes are issued by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as the legal tender of the Indian rupee (₹), intended to replace the Mahatma Gandhi Series of banknotes. Announced on 8 November 2016, it followed the demonetisation of ₹ 500 and ₹ 1000 banknotes of the original Mahatma Gandhi Series.
In order to contain the volume of banknotes in circulation due to inflation, the ₹ 1000 banknote was again re-introduced in November 2000, under the government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee, as a part of the Mahatma Gandhi Series of banknotes; these were demonetized on 8 November 2016 by the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi, with the claimed ...
The Indian 20-rupee banknote (₹ 20) is a common denomination of the Indian rupee.The current ₹ 20 banknote in circulation is a part of the Mahatma Gandhi New Series.The Reserve Bank introduced the ₹ 20 note in the Mahatma Gandhi New Series in 2019, making it the last denomination to be introduced in the series.
The ₹ 100 banknote of the Mahatma Gandhi Series is 157 × 73 mm blue-green coloured, with the obverse side featuring a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi with a signature of the governor of Reserve Bank of India. As of 2012, the new ₹ sign has been incorporated into banknote of ₹ 100. [3]
The Reserve Bank of India introduced the 5 rupee banknote as part of the Mahatma Gandhi Series in 1996. [1] The printing of notes in the denominations of ₹5, however, has been discontinued [citation needed] as these denominations have been coinised but still these notes are valid legal tender in India. [2] [3]