1 Rupee Bangalore; PoW Camps

Bangalore's PoW camp scrip occupies a specific and well-documented niche in wartime internment currency. British Indian authorities issued camp money to restrict prisoner purchasing power to approved canteen goods, preventing contact with the local economy and reducing escape incentives — a logic applied across internment systems from Europe to the Pacific.

Group I designation distinguishes the issuing administration from later organisational subdivisions as camp populations shifted during the war. The notes circulated within the wire and had no value outside it.