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Takaa had varying shades of meaning. In bengal and Bihar and eastern UP, it
still is a sort of generic name for a rupee. In Western UP and Delhi, it
often meany an adhannaa or adhaa aanaa of half aanaa.
M C Gupta
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On 2/16/08, Rudra ठाकुर <rudrac@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> thank you guptaji and rohitji for your input,
>
> also there is something as taka. is it same as anna?
> and in orissa they say taka as tonka .
>
> thanx,
> --rc
>
>
>
> On Feb 16, 2008 11:58 AM, Rohit Mansukhlal <measureqs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 2/16/08, Rudra ठाकुर <rudrac@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> >
> > > Hello all,
> > > can anyone shed some light on when we changed from "annas and
> > > pies" to "paisa and rupees".
> > > and what was unit of currency before "anna and pies".
> > >
> > > thanx,
> > > --rc
> > > =========================================================
> >
> > Without being exact about the year, I guess pai was the first to be
> > phased out,
> > sometime in late 50s. I vividly remeber the pai coin, a copper
> circular
> > disc with
> > a circular cutout in the centre. One anna coin was in nickel like
> finish,
> > a circular
> > one with corrugations on the perimeter. Six pais made one anna and
> > sixteen
> > annas made one rupee. After a while coins one anna and two annas too
> were
> > withdrawn from circulation. However the old coin of 4 annas and 8
> annas
> > remained
> > legal tender for many years, I guess well into early seventies and
> were
> > valued at
> > par with new 25 paise and 50 paise coinage put into the market. The
> old
> > money
> > was then called Juna paisa and the new denominations in metric system
> > came
> > to be known as Naya paisa, which is current until todate. It is for
> this
> > reason that
> > people have today forgotten the usage of words like pai, one anna, two
> > anna etc.
> > from their day to day dealings but chaar anna & aath anna have very
> much
> > stayed.
> >
> > Rohit Zaveri
> >
>
--
Prof. M C Gupta
MD (Medicine), MPH, LL.M.,
Advocate & Health and Medico-legal Consultant
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