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1000 Rupees
| Issuer | Government of India |
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| Year | 1937 |
| Type | Standard circulation banknote |
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| Obverse lettering | GOVERNMENT OF INDIA RANGOON I PROMISE TO PAY THE BEARER THE SUM OF ONE THOUSAND RUPEES ON DEMAND AT ANY OFFICE OF ISSUE FOR THE GOVT OF INDIA G.R.I. LEGAL TENDER IN BURMA ONLY |
| Reverse description | The reverse, also in dark purple-brown on a guilloche ground, presents a central vignette of a rural ploughing scene with mountains and palm trees in the background. An oval panel to the left carries the denomination ONE THOUSAND RUPEES in multiple scripts including Urdu, Hindi, Bengali, Burmese, Tamil, and others. A red overprint LEGAL TENDER IN BURMA ONLY is applied across the centre, and the heading GOVERNMENT OF INDIA appears at top. |
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The Government of India 1000 Rupees note of 1937 sits at the upper end of a denomination structure that made it essentially a banker's instrument — not something that passed through ordinary commerce. At that value, equivalent to several years' wages for most Indians, retail circulation was never really the point.
P#3A was issued under the Currency Ordinance framework that kept note issuance with the Government of India rather than the Reserve Bank, which had only been established in 1935. The transition of note-issuing authority to the RBI was still being phased in, and high-denomination government notes continued in parallel for a period. Few survived demonetization or wartime withdrawal measures.