The Problem of the Rupee, Its Origin and Its SolutionAmbedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji)
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The Problem of the Rupee, Its Origin and Its Solution
Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji)
Currency question -- India
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1913 15,946 1,006 — 1,620 18,572 4,000 35 — — 4,035 22,607 191 14·8
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1914 17,165 25 — 4,320 21,510 4,000 22 — — 4,022 25,532 187 17·2
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1915 12,149 8 — 1,250 13,407 — 70 7,000 5,238 13,308 25,715 204 18·9
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1916 16,219 5,792 — — 22,011 — 1 4,000 239 4,240 26,251 212 15·7
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1917 25,406 6,001 — — 31,407 — — — 103 103 31,510 227 20·8
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1918 28,453 6,000 — — 34,453 — — — — — 34,453 219 23·5
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1919 29,729 6,016 — — 35,7245 — — — — — 35,745 228 23·5
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³⁵⁴ In striking the proportion the rupee portion of the reserve has
been omitted.
[pg 234] does not stop to think how much currency it issues. The
proportion of the issues and the reserve not being correlated the
stability of the exchange standard, in so far as it depends upon the
reserve, must always remain in the region of vagueness, far too
problematical to inspire confidence of the system. Nay, the liability
of redemption for foreign remittances, small as it appears, may become
so indefinite as entirely to jeopardize the restoration of stability to
the exchange standard.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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