Evidence coverage: 1765–1838. This is the span of collected observations, not the currency’s lifetime.
This record includes associated currencies and earlier interpretations. The article selects the evidence relevant to its own history.
A documented account-unit or currency-system transition supports this predecessor identity; not admitted from a specimen or inherited label alone.
Evidence within this identity, not separate currencies.
A July 1765 agreement allocates the Bengal Nawab’s annual government allowance in sicca rupees. Association with the later Calcutta sicca profile is a qualified regional continuity; intervening standards and local ratings are not fully adjudicated.
Sources and qualifications →The Hooghly collector’s March 1773 remittance records revenue collections in sicca rupees. This is a direct accounting observation; grouping it with the later Calcutta sicca remains qualified.
Sources and qualifications →Regulation XXXV required sicca-denominated new contracts and revenue payments, as quoted by the Privy Council.
Sources and qualifications →Sicca obligations passed into Company-rupee accounting: the1835 Act governs contractual discharge, and the court follows an actual converted rent through the change. The1838 tender endpoint does not erase statutory exceptions.
Sources and qualifications →Calcutta sicca is independently established as a contractual and fiscal account unit by the1793 regulation quoted and applied in the1874 Privy Council judgment. ActXVII1835 explicitly recognizes sicca-denominated contracts separately from Company-rupee discharge. This replaces the indexed-only identity basis for the1793–1838 scope.
Sources and qualifications →Bengal and Company sicca accounting inherited the Mughal rupee system through regional Nawabi arrangements. Admit compressed regional ancestry, retaining distinctions among sicca, current and Patna accounts. The immediate stages and differentiation dates remain qualified.
Sources and qualifications →Dated evidence, not exact birth or extinction dates.
Regulation XXXV required sicca-denominated new contracts and revenue payments, as quoted by the Privy Council.
C1761Dated observations, not a proven complete lifespan.
The 1836 act ended Calcutta sicca-rupee tender status from January 1838; its Treasury notice prescribed exchange into the Company rupees of the 1835 act. Retrieval is limited to the indexed statutory passage.
Corrected interpretation: Revision 28 supplies a new evidence basis for R-V22-051. Replacement evidence: C1794.
Act section I and appended Treasury notice: legal tender ends in 1838; exchange into Company rupees
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Search-indexed statutory text inspected; full PDF retrieval returned 404.
A July 1765 agreement allocates the Bengal Nawab’s annual government allowance in sicca rupees. Association with the later Calcutta sicca profile is a qualified regional continuity; intervening standards and local ratings are not fully adjudicated.
Appendix no. XXIII, pp.37–38, agreement dated July 1765
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
University transcription of the 1772 printed primary document inspected.
The Hooghly collector’s March 1773 remittance records revenue collections in sicca rupees. This is a direct accounting observation; grouping it with the later Calcutta sicca remains qualified.
Manuscript p.1088; Lushington letter, Hooghly, 26 March 1773
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Regulation XXXV required sicca-denominated new contracts and revenue payments, as quoted by the Privy Council.
Judgment paragraph2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mirror has date/fraction transcription discrepancies; omit disputed precision.
Sicca obligations passed into Company-rupee accounting: the1835 Act governs contractual discharge, and the court follows an actual converted rent through the change. The1838 tender endpoint does not erase statutory exceptions.
ActXVII1835 §§III–VI; judgment paragraphs1–2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read operative statute sections I–VIII in the full transcription.
ActXVII1835 §§III–VI; judgment paragraphs1–2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mirror has date/fraction transcription discrepancies; omit disputed precision.
Parties converted the grant's existing rent into sicca after the1793 regulation and before the1802 settlement. This is a documented local obligation transition, not universal abolition.
Judgment paragraph2
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mirror has date/fraction transcription discrepancies; omit disputed precision.
Calcutta sicca is independently established as a contractual and fiscal account unit by the1793 regulation quoted and applied in the1874 Privy Council judgment. ActXVII1835 explicitly recognizes sicca-denominated contracts separately from Company-rupee discharge. This replaces the indexed-only identity basis for the1793–1838 scope.
ActXVII1835 §§III–VI; Meer Mahomed Hossein v Forbes1874, judgment paragraph2, quoting RegulationXXXV1793 and ActXIII1836
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Read operative statute sections I–VIII in the full transcription.
ActXVII1835 §§III–VI; Meer Mahomed Hossein v Forbes1874, judgment paragraph2, quoting RegulationXXXV1793 and ActXIII1836
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Mirror has date/fraction transcription discrepancies; omit disputed precision.
Bengal and Company sicca accounting inherited the Mughal rupee system through regional Nawabi arrangements. Admit compressed regional ancestry, retaining distinctions among sicca, current and Patna accounts. The immediate stages and differentiation dates remain qualified.
Chapter 5, pp. 99–111; imperial, Nawabi and Company account arrangements; Ain 10, Silver Coins and Copper Coins, pp. 31–32; salary and accountants’ reckoning
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
Chapter 5, pp. 99–111; imperial, Nawabi and Company account arrangements; Ain 10, Silver Coins and Copper Coins, pp. 31–32; salary and accountants’ reckoning
Not a complete origin, lifespan or current-status audit.
English transcription inspected; site header attribution inconsistent with translation/pagination, so no Persian manuscript verification claimed.