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5 Rupees Rabindranath Tagore
| Issuer | Reserve Bank of India |
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| Year | 2011 |
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| Currency | Rupee (decimalized, 1957-date) |
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| Reverse script | Devanagari/Latin |
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| Edge | Reeded |
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Issued to mark the 150th birth anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The Reserve Bank of India produced commemorative circulation strikes in this series throughout the 2000s and 2010s, tying the five-rupee denomination to figures of national cultural significance rather than retiring the format for purely transactional coinage.
Tagore's relationship with the British Crown was complicated — he returned his knighthood in 1919 following the Jallianwala Bagh massacre.