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  2. Empress of Blandings - Wikipedia

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    Once the pig bug has taken hold of her master, the Empress becomes a regular feature in the Blandings books, playing some part in most of the subsequent stories: Pig-hoo-o-o-o-ey (1927, included in Blandings Castle and Elsewhere, 1935) Summer Lightning (1929) Heavy Weather (1933) Uncle Fred in the Springtime (1939) Full Moon (1947) Pigs Have ...

  3. Indian units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    1 Pav = 2 Adh-pav = ¼ Seer (Pav means ¼) The unit pav is still used to this date however, it has been modified to "a fourth of a kilogram". 1 Adher = 2 Pav = ½ Seer In Hindi ½ Seer = Adha (½) Seer, or Adher 1 Ser = 2 Adher = 4 Pav = 16 Chattank = 80 Tola = 933.1 grams 1 Savaser = 1 Ser + 1 Pav (1¼ Seer) 1 Savaser weighed 100 Imperial rupees

  4. Indian anna - Wikipedia

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    There was a coin of one anna, and also half-anna coins of copper and two-anna pieces of silver. [2] With the rupee having been valued to 1s 6d [3] and weighing 180 grains as a 916.66 fine silver coin, [4] the anna was equivalent to 9/8 d (one penny and half a farthing). Hence the 2 anna silver coins were of low weight (22.5 grains = 1.46 g).

  5. Indian numbering system - Wikipedia

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    For example: 150,000 rupees is "1.5 lakh rupees" which can be written as "1,50,000 rupees", and 30,000,000 (thirty million) rupees is referred to as "3 crore rupees" which is can be written as "3,00,00,000 rupees". There are names for numbers larger than crore, but they are less commonly used.

  6. Bara - Wikipedia

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    Bara, an Indian Kannada-language film; Bara, a Malaysian Malay-language film; Bara (genre), a genre of Japanese media, especially comics, aimed at gay men; Bara, a genus of insects in the family Tetrigidae called ground-hoppers; Bara people, a people of central southern Madagascar; Bara Rifles, a Pakistani paramilitary regiment

  7. Bara Balutedar - Wikipedia

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    The Bara Balutedar (English: Twelve Balutedar) system was a hereditary system of twelve trades used historically in villages of regions that is now the Indian state of Maharashtra. The balutedars used get paid for the services provided with village produce under a complex barter system.

  8. 2 naye paise (Indian coin) - Wikipedia

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    Prior to 1957, Indian rupee was not decimalised and the rupee from 1835 to 1957 AD was further divided into 16 annas. Each anna was further divided to four Indian pices and each pice into three Indian pies till 1947 when the pie was demonetized. In 1955, India amended the "Indian Coinage Act" to adopt the metric system for coinage.

  9. Coins of British India - Wikipedia

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    10 rupees (2 ⁄ 3 mohur) 15 rupees ; 30 rupees (2 mohur) British gold sovereign, as an emergency war issue, in 1918. There are many rare coins of this period which interests coin collectors. The 1939 rupee is the most expensive rupee, as after 1939 all silver coins effectively became less pure, due to the shortage of silver during World War II.