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1000 Rupees Correct spelling of Rupee
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 1949-1967 |
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| Size | 179 x 90 mm |
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| Obverse lettering | 1000 Reserve Bank of India Guaranteed by the Central Government I promise to pay the bearer on demand the sum of One Thousand Rupees एक हज़ार रुपये At any office of issue Bombay 1000 One Thousand Rupees |
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| Reverse lettering | 1000 Reserve Bank of India 1000 एक हज़ार रुपये One Thousand Rupees |
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The 1000 Rupee note was demonetised in India in January 1946 — before this series was even issued — and then reintroduced with this post-independence issue in 1949, a decision that proved controversial given ongoing concerns about black money and hoarding among high-denomination notes. That tension was never really resolved: the denomination was demonetised again in 1978.
The Bhattacharya-signed Bombay issues from 1962–1967 are the scarcest by signature, as the note was pulled from circulation before that governor's tenure ran its full course. Rama Rau examples across all four place-of-issue variants represent the bulk of surviving population.