An Anna (Hindustani ana) was a currency unit formerly used in India, equal to 1/16 rupee. It was subdivided into 4 Paise or 12 Pies (thus there were 64 paise in a rupee and 192 pies). The term belonged to the Muslim monetary system. The Anna is not commonly used since India decimalised its currency in 1957. Hindustani is a term used by linguists to describe several closely related idioms in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent. ... Indian Rupee Collection The Rupee (₨ or Rs. ... A Paisa (pl. ... A Pie was a monetary unit formerly used in India. ... Decimalisation (or Decimalization) refers to any process of converting from traditional units, usually of money, to a decimal system. ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Sometimes, 50 Paise is colloquially referred to as 8 Annas (Ettu Anna, pronounced "Ettna") and 25 Paise as 4 Annas (Naal Anna, pronounced "Naalna") in Tamil, and Chawanni meaning 'four Annas" in most parts of North India. Tamil (தமிழ் ) is a classical language and one of the major languages of the Dravidian language family. ... A map showing North India North India is a geographic and linguistic-cultural region of India. ...

There was a coin of one anna, and also half-annas of copper and two-anna pieces of silver. The term anna is frequently used to express a fraction of 1/16. Thus an Anglo-Indian speaks of two annas of dark blood (an octoroon), a four-anna (quarter) crop, an eight-anna (half) gallop. An octoroon or mustee is the offspring of a quadroon and a European parent, having ancestry that is one-eighth Negroid. ...

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.

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