50 Rupees 125th Birth Anniversary Year of Srimat Swami Pranavanandji Maharaj

Swami Pranavananda Maharaj, born in 1896 in what is now Bangladesh, founded the Bharat Sevashram Sangha in 1917 — a Hindu monastic and social service organization that gained particular prominence for its relief work during the 1943 Bengal famine. India's commemorative rupee program has issued dozens of such anniversary pieces honoring religious and social reformers, the series functioning largely as a collector vehicle given that .500 silver issues of this diameter rarely see circulation.