1 Rupee Bhopal; PoW Camps

During the Second World War, British India operated numerous prisoner of war camps, and several issued their own scrip to control internal commerce and prevent detainees from accumulating currency usable outside the wire. Bhopal's camp scrip belongs to this scattered, poorly documented category — the issuing authority was a military administration, not a financial institution, which is why standard banking records are thin.

POW camp currency from the subcontinent is consistently underrepresented in major collections. Much was destroyed at war's end as a matter of policy, and surviving pieces rarely surfaced through conventional dealer channels.