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1 Anna Bangalore; PoW Camps
| Issuer | British India Prisoner of War Camp Administration |
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| Year | 1941-1945 |
| Type | Vouchers |
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| Obverse lettering | PRISONERS OF WAR ONE ANNA 1A Group I Bangalore CAMP |
| Reverse description | Unprinted plain yellow-cream paper, showing natural aging, foxing, and fold lines consistent with wartime circulation use. |
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British Indian POW camp currency occupies a peculiar administrative corner of wartime monetary history. These locally-produced chits were issued to Axis prisoners — primarily Italian and German — held at camps across the subcontinent, allowing controlled internal purchasing without giving captives access to rupees that could fund escape attempts. The Bangalore camp was one of the larger facilities, processing Italian prisoners captured in the East African campaign after the fall of Italian East Africa in 1941.
Production was strictly utilitarian, handled locally rather than by any established security printer. Paper quality and impression consistency vary considerably across surviving examples as a result.