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100 Rupees First War of Independence
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2007 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Reverse script | Latin/Devanagari |
| Reverse lettering | प्रथम स्वतंत्रता संग्राम THE FIRST WAR OF INDEPENDENCE १५० वर्ष 150 YEARS 1857-2007 |
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Issued to mark the 150th anniversary of the 1857 uprising — called the Sepoy Mutiny by the British and the First War of Independence by the Indian government — this coin reflects a historiographical argument that India has been having with its colonial past since partition. The naming itself is political: Jawaharlal Nehru's government formally adopted the "First War of Independence" framing in the 1950s, a deliberate recontextualization of what Victorian-era accounts had long dismissed as a mutiny of disgruntled soldiers.
The .500 fineness is notably low for a commemorative silver issue, a cost-driven compromise that became common for Indian commemoratives of this period.