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From 1833 the rupee and tolā weight was fixed at 180 grains, i.e. 11.66382 grams. Hence the weight of 1 maund increased to 37.324224 kilogram. [3] Traditionally one maund represented the weight unit for goods which could be carried over some distance by porters or pack animals.
The most common of these was a vigesimal (base-20) numbering system with the main denomination called a bisi (see Hindustani number bīs), which corresponded to the land required to sow 20 nalis of seed. Consequently, its actual land measure varied based on the quality of the soil. [5] This system became the established norm in Kumaon by 1891.
Cryptic crosswords often use abbreviations to clue individual letters or short fragments of the overall solution. These include: Any conventional abbreviations found in a standard dictionary, such as:
An anna (or ānna) was a currency unit formerly used in British India, equal to 1 ⁄ 16 of a rupee. [1] It was subdivided into four pices or twelve pies (thus there were 192 pies in a rupee). When the rupee was decimalised and subdivided into 100 (new) paise, one anna was therefore equivalent to 6.25 paise.
East African rupee – Kenya, Somalia, Tanzania and Uganda; French Indian rupee – French India; Gulf rupee – Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar and United Arab Empirates; Hyderabad rupee – Hyderabad; Indian rupee (रुपया) – India; Javan rupee – Java; Mauritian rupee – Mauritius; Nepalese rupee (रुपैयाँ) – Nepal
The Indian paisa (plural: paise) is a 1 ⁄ 100 (one-hundredth) subdivision of the Indian rupee. The paisa was first introduced on 1 April 1957 after decimalisation of the Indian rupee. [1] In 1955, the Government of India first amended the Indian Coinage Act and adopted the "metric system for coinage".
In the early 20th century the large ingots were worth about 60–70 Indian rupees, the ingots of medium size 12–14 rupees and the smallest ingots 2–3 rupees. [7] British-Indian authors occasionally refer to the silver bars found in Tibet, some of which were imported from Kashgar, as "yambus", an expression which derives from Chinese yuanbao.
A crossword (or crossword puzzle) is a word game consisting of a grid of black and white squares, into which solvers enter words or phrases ("entries") crossing each other horizontally ("across") and vertically ("down") according to a set of clues. Each white square is typically filled with one letter, while the black squares are used to ...