The Burma Currency Board was established by the British to manage Burmese currency following the Japanese occupation, which had flooded the country with near-worthless military scrip. This 10 Rupee note belongs to the immediate postwar transitional period — Burma was still under British administration in 1947 and had not yet achieved independence, which came in January 1948.
Printing at the Reserve Bank of India Press in Nasik was a practical necessity; Burma had no sovereign printing infrastructure of its own. The rupee-denominated series was retired shortly after independence, when Burma moved to the kyat system and broke its currency peg to the Indian rupee.
The Burma Currency Board was established by the British to manage Burmese currency following the Japanese occupation, which had flooded the country with near-worthless military scrip. This 10 Rupee note belongs to the immediate postwar transitional period — Burma was still under British administration in 1947 and had not yet achieved independence, which came in January 1948.
Printing at the Reserve Bank of India Press in Nasik was a practical necessity; Burma had no sovereign printing infrastructure of its own. The rupee-denominated series was retired shortly after independence, when Burma moved to the kyat system and broke its currency peg to the Indian rupee.