1 Rupee 1935, India
| in Krause book | Number: 14b |
| Years of issue: | 1935 (1940) |
| Edition: | 250 000 000 |
| Signatures: | Controller of the currency: Mr. J. W. Kelly |
| Serie: | Government of India |
| Specimen of: | 1935 |
| Material: | Cotton fiber |
| Size (mm): | 90 х 54 |
| Printer: | TDLR (Thomas de la Rue & Company), London |
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Description
Watermark:
The Stars.
Avers:
Top right is the window with the portrait of HM The King George V. Around the portrait is an inscription: "George V King Emperor".
HM The King George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert, 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death.
George was a grandson of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the first cousin of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. From 1877 to 1891, he served in the Royal Navy. On the death of Victoria in 1901, George's father became King Edward VII, and George was made Prince of Wales. On his father's death in 1910, he succeeded as King-Emperor of the British Empire. He was the only Emperor of India to be present at his own Delhi Durbar.
As a result of the First World War (1914-18), most other European empires fell while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He was plagued by illness throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.
HM The King George V with The Imperial Crown of India.
The Imperial Crown of India is the crown that was used by King George V in his capacity as Emperor of India at the Delhi Durbar of 1911.
The British constitution prohibits the Crown Jewels from leaving the country, a product of the days when kings and queens often pawned the jewels to foreign buyers. There are also considerable risks involved in transporting the historic regalia by sea and land over such a great distance. For these reasons, a new crown was made specially for George V and Queen Mary's trip to India in 1911, where they were proclaimed as Emperor and Empress of India before the princes and rulers of India.
The Crown Jewellers at the time, Garrard & Co, made the crown at a cost of £60,000, which was borne by the India Office.
The Imperial Crown of India weighs 920 g. (2.03 lb.) and is set with 6,170 diamonds, 9 emeralds, 4 rubies, and 4 sapphires. At the front is a very fine emerald weighing 32 carats (6.4 g.). The king wrote in his diary that it was heavy and uncomfortable to wear: "Rather tired after wearing my crown for 3 1⁄2 hours; it hurt my head, as it is pretty heavy."
Similar to other British crowns, it consists of a circlet with four crosses pattée and four fleurs-de-lis. However, the eight half-arches on top, which join at a typical monde and cross pattée, point upwards in the form of a Gothic ogee arch. The crown is the only crown of a British sovereign to have eight half-arches, in the style of continental European crowns, departing from the tradition of British crowns having two arches or four half-arches.
George and Mary were not crowned as emperor and empress at the ceremony; the Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson, did not think it appropriate for a Christian service to take place in a country where the people were mostly Hindu or Muslim. Instead, the king simply wore the crown as he entered the durbar, and the durbar was styled as an affirmation of the king's coronation, which had already taken place in the United Kingdom six months earlier.
It has not been used since George V returned from India. On 15 August 1947, the Indian Empire was dissolved and the Dominions of India and Pakistan came into being. George VI and his British Prime Minister, Clement Attlee, agreed that "as long as the two new Dominions remained in the Commonwealth, the crown should be retained among the Crown Jewels, but if at later date one or both were to secede it might be contended that, in view of the fact that it had been purchased out of Indian funds, the crown should be vested in some Indian authority". Whilst neither Dominion still exists, their Indian and Pakistani successor states are both still in the Commonwealth.
The Imperial Crown of India is on public display in the Jewel House at the Tower of London. 
As a result of the First World War (1914-18), most other European empires fell while the British Empire expanded to its greatest effective extent. In 1917, George became the first monarch of the House of Windsor, which he renamed from the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as a result of anti-German public sentiment. His reign saw the rise of socialism, communism, fascism, Irish republicanism, and the Indian independence movement, all of which radically changed the political landscape. The Parliament Act 1911 established the supremacy of the elected British House of Commons over the unelected House of Lords. In 1924 he appointed the first Labour ministry and in 1931 the Statute of Westminster recognised the dominions of the Empire as separate, independent states within the Commonwealth of Nations. He was plagued by illness throughout much of his later reign and at his death was succeeded by his eldest son, Edward VIII.
Denominations in numerals are in top right corner and centered. On left side are denominations written in eight Indian languages - Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Burmese, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada and Gujarati.
Revers:
Top left is the silver 1 Rupee coin with denomination in words and the year of issue.
Around it is a wreath of thistles (Scotland), The Tudor roseы (England) and Shamrocks (Northern Ireland).
Top centered is the crowned monogram of HM The King George VI.
Comments:
On the photo is the first Central Board of Directors; STANDING (Left to Right): Sundar Singh Majithia, U. Bah Oh, Shri Ram, Badridas Goenka, Edward Benthall, F.E. Dinshaw, J.W. Kelly, A.A. Bruce, M. Ramachandra Rao;
SITTING: Adam Hajee Mohammad Sait, Purshotamdas Thakurdas, James B. Taylor, Osborne A. Smith, Sikander Hyat-Khan, Homi Mehta, Muzammilullah Khan.
In 1935, it was decided to re-introduce the Rupee 1 note and Rs 250mn worth of notes were printed in England. However, these could not be introduced due to death of George V in Jan 1936.
It was only in 1940 following the outbreak of the Second World War and the ensuing commodity scarcity including Silver that, as a war measure, the British Govt of India decided to circulate these notes within India with a value considered at par with the metallic silver rupee.
This was a unique monetary phenomenon where notes of a ruler was introduced after his death.
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