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1 Anna Deoli; Internment Camp
| Issuer | Civil Internment Camp, Deoli |
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| Year | 1942-1946 |
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| Value | 1 Anna (1⁄16) |
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| Obverse description | Violet guilloche underprint with a yellow central rosette medallion carrying the denomination text "ONE ANNA" in large violet letterpress across the centre. The inscription "CIVIL INTERNMENT CAMP" runs along the top, with "PRISONERS OF WAR" rendered as a large diagonal overprint across the guilloche field, and "DEOLI" below the central medallion. Denomination panels reading "1A" appear at left and right within the scalloped border. |
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| Obverse lettering | CIVIL INTERNMENT CAMP PRISONERS OF WAR ONE ANNA 1A DEOLI |
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Deoli, in Rajasthan, was a British internment camp used primarily to detain civilians of enemy-alien status during the Second World War — most of them ethnic Germans, Italians, and Japanese residents of British India who had been living and working in the subcontinent for years, some for decades. The camp scrip series, of which this is the lowest denomination, was produced to allow controlled internal commerce while preventing internees from holding or accessing official currency. Production was entirely local, which accounts for the crude, almost improvised character of the printing.
Campbell's reference 5251 places this within a documented but poorly-studied series. Surviving examples from Deoli are genuinely uncommon — the camp population was limited, the notes were never redeemable outside the wire, and most were presumably destroyed or discarded at the war's end.