Facts About Indian Currency

• The first coins were minted (made) around 2500 years ago.
• Paper money was first used in China over 1000 years ago.
• The first "rupee” was first introduced by Sher Shah Suri. It was based on a ratio of 40 copper pieces (paisa) per rupee.
• Udaya K Dharmalingam is the designer of the Indian rupee Symbol, which was adopted by the Government of India in 2010.
• From 1953, Hindi was displayed prominently on the new notes.
• The Government of India took over the issue of bank notes in 1861 from the Private and Presidency Banks.
• The first series of coins with the Indian rupee symbol was launched on 8 July, 2011.
• The first 1000 Rs Note was introduced in 2000.
• Decimalization started in 1957 and the rupee was divided into 100 Naye Paise.
• Total 15 Languages (Apart from English) are printed in Indian Rupee Note. They are Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Panjabi, Sanskrit, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.
• In India, the first paper bank note was published by Bank of Hindustan in 1770.
• The current Mahatma Gandhi series of bank notes stared from 1996 with new series of 10Rs notes.
• Indian coins are produced in 4 cities: Noida, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Kolkata. The coins produce from each city puts an identification mark under the year of issue. Coins produced in Noida have a dot mark, Mumbai have diamond mark, Hyderabad have star mark and coin produce from Kolkata have nothing beneath the year.
• Credit cards were first used in the United States in the 1920’s

Top 10 Largest Countries by Area

1 Russia — 17,098,242 km square
2 Canada — 9,984,670 km square
3 United States of America— 9,826,675 km square
4 China— 9,596,961 km square
5 Brazil— 8,514,877 km square
6 Australia— 7,617,930 km square
7 India— 3,287,263 km square
8 Argentina— 2,766,890 km square
9 Kazakhstan— 2,724,900 km square
10 Algeria— 2,381,741 km square

Ancient Dynasities and their capitals

1. Maurya - Pataliputhra
2. Guptha - Prayag
3. Kusana - Purushapuram
4. Pallava - Kanchipuram
5. Chalukya - Vathapi
6. Pandya - Madhurai
7. Chera - Vanchi
8. Rashtrakuta - Manyaketham
9. Sathavahana - Prathishtanam
10. Hoysala - Dwarasamudram

Indian Currency Details

Printing of Currency Notes & Coins in India—

SECURITY PRESSES in India —

1. Currency Note Press, Nasik (1928)
2. Bank Note Press, Dewas (1974) 
3. Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam, Salboni, West Bengal ( 1995)
4. Bharatiya Note Mudra Nigam, Mysore, Karnataka. (1995)

Security Paper Mill—

1. Security Paper Mill, Hoshangabad (1963)

Four mints in the country for the production of coins—

1. Mumbai, Maharashtra (Data byhttp://goo.gl/8a2rgq)
2. Alipore(Kolkata),West Bengal
3. Saifabad(Hyderabad), Andhra Pradesh
4. Noida, Uttar Pradesh

Few Quotes from The Monk who sold his ferrari-Worth Reading

Every Event has a purpose and every setback its lesson.failure whether of personal,professional or even spirutual kins is essential to personal expansion.It

brins inner growth and whole host of psychic rewards.Never regret your past.rather embrace it as the teacher it is
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If
you care for your mind, if you nurture it and if you cultivate it just
like a fertile, rich garden, it will blossom far beyond your
expectations. But if you let the weeds take root, lasting peace of
mind and deep inner harmony will always elude you
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There are no mistakes in life,
only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only
opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of selfmastery.
From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a
wonderful teacher.' "
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No matter what happens to you
in your life, you alone have the capacity to choose your response to
it.
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By controlling the
thoughts that you think and the way you respond to the events of
your life, you begin to control your destiny.
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stop judging events as either
positive or negative. Rather, simply experience them, celebrate
them and learn from them. Every event offers you lessons. These
little lessons fuel your inner and outer growth. Without them, you
would be stuck on a plateau. Just think about it in your own life.
Most people have grown the most from their most challenging
experiences. And if you meet with an outcome you did not expect
and feel a little disappointed, remember that the laws of nature
always ensure that when one door closes another opens."
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condition your mind to translate every event into a
positive, empowering one, you will banish worry forever.
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There is nothing noble about being superior
to some other person. True nobility lies in being superior to your
former self.'
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Do not be concerned with
the judgment of others as long as you know what you are doing is
right. You can do whatever you want to do as long as it is correct
according to your conscience and your heart.Never be ashamed of
doing that which is right; decide on what you think is good and
then stick to it. And for God's sake, never get into the petty habit
of measuring your self-worth against other people's net worth.
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things which are most important should never be sacrificed
to those things which are the least important
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How could you
nurture a family if you haven't learned to nurture and care for
yourself? How could you possibly do good if you don't even feel
good? Do you see my point?"
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life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but
it always gives you what you need."
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Important Books List

6th December 1992— P.V. Narasimha Rao
A bend in the River — V.S. Naipal...
A Million Multinies Now — V.S. Naipal
A Mission In Kashmir —Andrew Whitehead
A new deal for Asia —Mahathir Mohammad
A pair of blue eyes —Thomas Hardy
A Passage of India — E.M. Forster
A Voice of Freedom — Nayantara Sehgal
Aansoo —Jai Shankar Prasad
Abhigyan Shakuntalam — Kalidas
Across Black Waters — Mulk Raj Anand
Affluent Society —J.K. Galbraith
Agni Veena —Kazi Nazurul Islam (data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Ain-e-Akbari —Abul Fazal
Ajatshatru Jai —Shanker Prasad
Akabarnama —Abul Fazal
Alice in Wonderland — Lewis Carrol
Amar Singh —Amar Singh
Amrit Aur Vish- Amrit Lal Nagar
An EquaL Music —Vikram Seth
Anamika, Parimal, Gunjan, Jusi ki kali -Suryaknt Tripathi Nirala
Anna Karenina —Tolstoy(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Area of Darkness —V.S. Naipal
Arthashastra —Kautilya
Ashtadhyayi —Panini
Asian Drama —Gunnar Myrdal
August Coup —Mikhail S. Gorbachov
Avanti Sundari —Dandi
Ayodhya .V. Narasimha Rao
Between the Lines —Kuldeep Nayyar
Bhagwad Gita —Veda Vyas
Bharat Bharti —Maithili Saran Gupta
Bharat Durdasha — Bhartendu Harischandra
Bihari Satsai — Bihari(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Bijak— Kabirdas
Bliss was it in that down — Minoo Masani
Blood Brothers — M.J. Akbar
Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life —J.M. Coetzee
Bradman’s Best — Rolland Perry
Broken Wing —Sarojini Naidu
Buddha Charitam —Ashwaghosh
Chand Ka Munh Tedha Hai —Gajanan Madhav
Coolie — Mulk Raj Anand(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Cosmic Reality — Lajja Ram
Curfewed Night— Basarrat Peer
Das Capital —Karl Marx
Dashkumaracharitam — Dandi
Daybhag —Jeemootwahan
Death —Kaka Saheb Kalelkar
Divine Comedy — Dante
Divine Life — Swami Shivanand
Elizabeth Castello— Eight Lessons J.M. Coetzee
End of the Era —C.S. Pandit(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Envisioning an Empowered Nation — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
Eternal India —Mrs. Indira Gandhi
Experiment with Untruth — Michael Anderson
Fasting, Feasting — Anita Desai
Fireproof —Raj Kamal Jha
Forty nine Days— Amrita Pritam
Freedom from Fear — Aung San Suu Kyi
Gaban — Munsi PremChand
Geet Govind — Jayadev
Gitanjali —Rabindra Nath Tagore(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Glimpses of World History —Jawahar Lal Nehru
Godan —Munsi PremChand
Golden Threshold — Sarojini Naidu
Gora— Rabindra Nath Tagore
Gulag Archipelago — Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Guide —R. K. Narayanan
Gurusagaran — O.P. Vijayan
Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows —J.K. Rowling
Harsha Charit — Bana Bhatta
Hindu view of Life — Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
History of Western Philosophy — B. Russel
Humanyunama — Gulbadan Beghum
I Follow the Mahatma — K.M. Munshi
Ignited Minds — Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
In the Line of Fire — A Memoir — Parvez Musharraf
India Wins Freedom— Abul Kalam Azad
Indian Philosophy — Dr. S. Radhakrishnan
Indian Summers — John Wright
Indian war of Independence — V.D. Savarkar
Indira Gandhi Returns —Khushwant Singh
Innocent in Death —J.D. Robb(data by facebook/cnaonweb)
Interpreter of Maladies — Jhumpa Lahiri
Kaya Kalp — Munshi Prem Chand
Let Us Kill Gandhi — Tushar A. Gandhi
Life of Pi —Yann Martel
My President Years —R. Venkataraman