Indian rupee
Indian rupee: a currency still in use.
- Dates in use
- Still in use; introduction date not established here
- Currency code
- INR
- Ancestry branch
- Indian rupee
Where this money came from
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The story
Article 4 retains the British Indian silver rupee as the standard coin of East Africa and Uganda, governing money transactions unless expressly agreed otherwise. [1]
Article 5 provides subsidiary coins expressed in cents or hundredths of a rupee. [2]
Articles 14 and 16 authorise local government currency notes, payable on demand in current coin and legal tender with a Currency Board-office exception. [3]
Turning points
Account-unit observation
Act XVII addresses discharge of engagements in Company rupees and expressly preserves particular payment clauses in sicca-denominated contracts. [4]
Issuer and design change
Crown coinage followed Company coinage in the rupee system. Change of sovereign and coin design, not a new unit of account. [5]
Earlier standard order recited
The 1905 order recites a 19 May 1898 order making British India’s silver rupee the East Africa Protectorate’s standard coin. [6]
Republic coin issue
RBI describes monetary continuity during 1947–1950 and dates the Republic's distinctive coin issue to 15 August 1950. [7]
Subdivision reform
India decimalised the rupee without changing its value or name. Subdivision reform stays on the rupee line. [8]
Territorial currency separation
India introduced a separate rupee-note currency for Gulf circulation. The original domestic notes were displaced through a regional changeover; no modern peg is being promoted into ancestry. [9]
Sources and evidence
- British Crown; East Africa and Uganda Official Gazette; Kenya Law scan · East Africa and Uganda (Currency) Order in Council, 1905 — Gazette 1 June 1905 C603 ↗
- British Crown; East Africa and Uganda Official Gazette; Kenya Law scan · East Africa and Uganda (Currency) Order in Council, 1905 — Gazette 1 June 1905 C604 ↗
- British Crown; East Africa and Uganda Official Gazette; Kenya Law scan · East Africa and Uganda (Currency) Order in Council, 1905 — Gazette 1 June 1905 C605 ↗
- Governor-General of India in Council · Act XVII of 1835: Gold and Silver Coinage Act C1760 ↗
- The Royal Mint · Empire to Independence Six-Coin Rupee Set C962 ↗
- British Crown; East Africa and Uganda Official Gazette; Kenya Law scan · East Africa and Uganda (Currency) Order in Council, 1905 — Gazette 1 June 1905 C602 ↗
- Reserve Bank of India · Republic India Coinage C586 ↗
- Government of India, Ministry of Finance / Press Information Bureau · Decimal Coinage — a Fascinating History, 30 March 2007 C964 ↗
- Reserve Bank of India Monetary Museum · Persian Gulf Issues; Michael Edo / International Monetary Fund · Currency Arrangements and Banking Legislation in the Arabian Peninsula, 1975 C967 ↗
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“Indian rupee.” The Family Tree of Money. © Field Technologies, Inc. Reader edition 2026-10-13; research dataset v44. https://familytreeofmoney.org/currency/FTM000285.html