...eared before him, as if, from nowhere. The pimp rose from his lap and handed over Dang’s wrist into that girl’s hand. Then she whispered, the charge, rupees five, is to be paid in advance.” Before he could decide his response, a man, in his 50s, held out his empty palm with the request, “Fee, sir, for twenty minutes is, no doubt, five rupees, but by paying ten rupees in ad...

...eared before him, as if, from nowhere. The pimp rose from his lap and handed over Dang’s wrist into that girl’s hand. Then she whispered, the charge, rupees five, is to be paid in advance.” Before he could decide his response, a man, in his 50s, held out his empty palm with the request, “Fee, sir, for twenty minutes is, no doubt, five rupees, but by paying ten rupees in ad...

...agricultural labourer. She has a small land, which will yield 6 to 7 thousand rupees a year if the yield is good. She was married at 13 years and ha...

...ss almost for a fortnight. "I think that it was here that I actually began to earn for months at a run. One day, my earnings went to as high as Five Rupees and 14 Annas, I decided to place it before my mother, instead of handing it over to my father, as usual. …………. "Well, Khanna Ji, how long you had to work with this medico, before resuming your interrupted schoolin...

...ss almost for a fortnight. "I think that it was here that I actually began to earn for months at a run. One day, my earnings went to as high as Five Rupees and 14 Annas, I decided to place it before my mother, instead of handing it over to my father, as usual. …………. "Well, Khanna Ji, how long you had to work with this medico, before resuming your interrupted schoolin...

...ollars are US dollars unless otherwise specified. 1 US Dollar ($) = Indian Rupees (Rs.) 45 (As on September 30, 2010). Indian Financial Year: April-Ma... ...eze (Table 3). All these developments put downward pressures on the Indian Rupee and exacerbated volatility in the foreign exchange market. To some ex... ...unt of volatility was observed. Like other emerging market currencies, the Rupee also witnessed a sharp downward trend. To a large extent, existing ca... ... depreciation of the US dollar against most global currencies coupled with rupee appreciation hit the Indian exporters badly. In particular, small and... ...ative products to exporters ostensibly to hedge their losses from a rising Rupee. The unwary exporters entered into derivative contracts largely on th...

...ave these duties to the reasoning of one and all. They spend several lakhs of rupees to build temples, which are hundreds of years old. What do we g... ...rselves as the low caste and the Brahmins as the high caste. We give lakhs of rupees for these temples in order for the Brahmins to use it. They con... ...olished the low castes and started a Harijan Sevak Sangh by getting lakhs of rupees from rich industrialists like Birla. They purchased a few Untou... ...ess and Untouchability In 1920, Gandhi collected a fund amounting to 1 crore rupees in the name of Swaraj Fund—this amount was spent only for Brahm... ...year 1926-27, Kadhar (handspun cloth) Fund was collected amounting to 30 lakh rupees. This was also spent only for the betterment of Brahmins and th... ... Harijan fund was collected in the name of Untouchables. Around 20 to 30 lakh rupees were collected and it was also given to Brahmins to perpetrate ... ... untouchability. For 10, 15 years he got publicity. He collected several lakh rupees. Till today, he could not say from his mouth that castes must b... ...ts and rice and peppermint. Is this service for the Harijans? This costs one rupee a week. The person who distributes this material has a salary of... ...he Depressed Classes In this country, they have allocated two or three crore rupees for the development of the Depressed Classes. To whom did they ...

...in the double digits, there is less buying power and if they do earn some rupees their consumer options are limited. ―In India family farming ha... ...us arm of Ashok would be thrust into every stopped vehicle, expecting some rupees to be dropped into the rusty pail that hung from his fingerless wri... ... the National Rural Health Mission, has offered couples a reward of 5,000 rupees, about a hundred dollars, if they delay having a child for two year... ..., about a hundred dollars, if they delay having a child for two years. 70 rupees a day is a good wage in rural areas so you see it is quite an incent... ...ite an incentive. If they wait another year, they receive a further 2,500 rupees. It has proved so successful that other states soon followed. 24 ...

...million (FY85/86 est.) Monetary conversion rate: both ngul- trums and Indian rupees are legal tender; 12.88 ngultrums= 12.88 Indian rupees=US$l (Octob... ...illion; disbursements, $45 billion (FY85/86) Monetary conversion rate: 13.09 rupees=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 1 April-31 March 113 India (con... ...tal expenditures, 4.9% (1986/87) Monetary conversion rate: 13.34 Mauri- tian rupees=US$l (November 1986) Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June Communications Hi... ...ditures, $536 million (FY84/85 est.) Monetary conversion rate: 21.8 Nepalese rupees=US$l (October 1986) Fiscal year: 15 July-14 July Communications Ra... ...development expenditures, $2.6 billion (FY86) Monetary conversion rate: 17.2 rupees=US$l (FY86 average) Fiscal year: 1 July-30 June Communications Rai... ...million; net lending, $3.5 million Monetary conversion rate: 5.99 Seychelles rupees=US$l (January 1987) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Rail... ...ues, $1.4 billion; expenditures, $2.0 billion Monetary conversion rate: 28.5 rupees=US$l (October 1986) Fiscal year: calendar year Communications Rail...

...d made me perform for the truck-drivers there. Naturally, he kept all the rupees they put in the hat he passed around. ‘After that he took me along ... ...e cakes in the village f rst.’ ‘Have you got any money?’ ‘Hmm. About seven rupees,’ Buntee answered hesitantly. ‘But we’ll need to eat later and I do... ...an up to the bus. The grumpy driver glanced at them and grunted, ‘T wenty rupees.’ Buntee f shed in his pockets but found only biscuit crumbs. ‘The ...

...hoping to secure in August gleefully mushroomed to $2.5- 3.5 billion in October. The rupee shot up in response. Debt forgiveness is discussed with Pa...

...hing. He feels specially drivers are prone to AIDS. He has spent 8 lakhs rupees for treatment in Karaikudi and that one Dr. Marutha Pandi has cheat... ...ver friend of his is no more. So far this man has spent around two lakhs rupees for the treatment. He had a love affair with a Kallar caste-Hindu ...

...eared before him, as if, from nowhere. The pimp rose from his lap and handed over Dang’s wrist into that girl’s hand. Then she whispered, the charge, rupees five, is to be paid in advance.” Before he could decide his response, a man, in his 50s, held out his empty palm with the request, “Fee, sir, for twenty minutes is, no doubt, five rupees, but by paying ten rupees in ad...

...nd he was thirty-three, with pay and allowances of nearly fourteen hundred rupees a month. So the match, as we arranged it, was in every way a good on... ...ter images of the Virgin, and hats without crowns. Miss Vezzis drew twenty rupees a month for acting as nurse, and she squabbled weekly with her Mamma... ...cted with cooking, for a Club in Southern India! He sent Mrs D’Cruze seven rupees eight annas a month; but she felt the disgrace to the family very ke... ...ghter with Michele, on condi- tion that Michele should have at least fifty rupees a month to start married life upon. This wonderful prudence must hav... ...iss Vezzis and his chances of 50 Plain Tales from the Hills getting fifty rupees a month out of office hours. He had the noise of the Bay of Bengal a... ...glish authority in the place. Then he thought of Miss Vezzis and the fifty rupees, and took the situation on himself. There were seven native policeme... ...fer of Michele up-country once more, on the Im- perial salary of sixty-six rupees a month. 52 Plain Tales from the Hills So he and Miss Vezzis were m... ...ch more than thirty-five years her senior; and, as he lived on two hundred rupees a month and had money of his own, he was well off. He belonged to go... ...b give me bukshish? It,” pointing to the Other Man, “should have given one rupee.” The Other Man sat with a grin on his face, as if he enjoyed the jok...

...rs. They are very fine horses, these new ones: I have seen them. Give me a rupee, Mahbub Ali, and when I come to my wealth I will give thee a bond and... ...a small wad of folded tissue paper wrapped in oil skin, with three silver rupees–enormous largesse. He smiled and thrust money and paper into his lea... ...d at the lama’s immense simplicity (he had handed him a small bag full of rupees), Kim asked and paid for a ticket to Umballa. A sleepy clerk grunted... ... me. This way! Come!’ He returned the money, keeping only one anna in each rupee of the price of the Umballa ticket as his commission the immemorial ... ... came round the corner. When the servant passed he picked it up, dropped a rupee–Kim could hear the clink–and strode into the house, never turning rou... ... but parast, but in other lives, maybe, they will receive enlightenment. A rupee to the temple? The thing within is no more than stone and red paint, ... ...m laid a hand on the stirrup leather. ‘It repents me that I did not give a rupee to the shrine,’ said the lama on the last bead of his eighty one. The... ...e did not ride to me begging for a new charger, and the Gods know how many rupees. Are thy brothers’ regiments also under orders?’ ‘I do not know. I t... ...et he’s a good man–I’m sure he’s a good man. Bennett, if you give him that rupee he’ll curse you root and branch!’ 86 Kim They listened to each other...

...‘“Ye black brazen Jezebel,” sez I, “sellin’ your masther’s honour for five rupees—pack up all the Miss Sahib’s kit an’ look slippy! Capt’n Sahib ’s or... ...ooded Yorkshireman; but ‘twill cost ye not a penny less than three hundher rupees.’ ‘Don’t yo’ believe him, mum,’ says I; ‘t’ Colonel’s Laady wouldn’t... ... man to hod back, tho’ it’s a bad business I’m thinkin’, an’ three hundred rupees is a poor set-off again t’ chance of them Damning Islands as Mulvane... ... of paintin’ to keep t’ reet culler, tho’ Orth’ris spent a matter o’ seven rupees six annas i’ t’ best drooggist shops i’ Calcutta. An’ t’ Canteen Sar... ...ve there wasn’t— an’ we cuts away. What coom to t’ three hundred and fifty rupees? Thot’s what I can scarcelins tell yo’, but we melted it—we melted i... ... command of a gang of coolies for old sake’s sake. The pay was eighty-five rupees a month, and Dinah Shadd said that if Terence did not accept she wou... ...wling minutes, and then Blue Rot collapsed and Ortheris paid Learoyd three rupees, and we were all very thirsty. A dog-fight is a most heating enter- ... ...il all in the heart av an hour. By the same token I gave Father Victor wan rupee to say a mass for Flahy’s soul, me havin’ discommoded him by shtickin... ...r over the ditch. ‘Onything but t’ braass, Orth’ris, ma son! Ah’ve got one rupee eight annas of ma own.’ He showed two coins, and replaced Ortheris on...

...hen. What ought a man to give his sais in the Hills? My ruffian says eight rupees, because everything is so dear. Miss T . Six rupees a month, and one... ...upees, because everything is so dear. Miss T . Six rupees a month, and one rupee Simla allowance— neither more nor less. And a grass-cut gets six rupe... ...oman. I fancy I see myself taking a wife on those terms. MACKESY. With the rupee at one and sixpence. The little Doones would be little Debra Doones, ... ...se, presented by—Done. Yes, it’s an en- chanting prospect. By the way, the rupee hasn’t done falling yet. The time will come when we shall think ourse... ...ake up! JERVOISE. Eh? What’s that? What’s that? CURTISS. We want a hundred rupees from you. Y ou’re a bach- elor drawing a gigantic income, and there’... ...khit coming for the late charge. Just Heavens! One, two, three, four, five rupees to pay for the pleasure of saying that a poor little beast of a woma...

...iage this time—and went to sleep. If the man with the beard had given me a rupee I should have kept it as a memento of a rather curious affair. But th... ...Martini is worth her weight in silver among the Pathans.” “Fifteen hundred rupees of capital—every rupee we could beg, borrow, or steal—are invested o...

...d, perhaps, the handsomest man in our corps; but you have not got a single rupee. Y ou ask me for Julia, and you do not possess even an anna!”—(Here t... ... playing cards the night before, and O’Gawler had lost to me seven hundred rupees. I emptied the last of the sangaree into the two pint tumblers out o... ...ach. It settled him completely, and of course I never got my seven hundred rupees. Such are the uncertainties of war! *The Major certainly offered to ... ...istols, his turban covered with jewels, worth a hundred thousand crores of rupees— finally, his hookah, snake mouthpiece, silver-bell, chillum and all... ...from either)—could I, I say, expect to live long and well upon a ragout of rupees, or a dish of stewed emeralds and rubies? With all the wealth of Cro... ...ng it, there, where I had left ingots, sacks of bright tomauns, kopeks and rupees, strings of diamonds as big as ducks’ eggs, rubies as red as the lip... ...e Prophet! the infidel has no more ammunition. A hundred thousand lakhs of rupees to the man who brings me Gahagan’s head!” His men set up a shout, an...

...or a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even thoug... ...ught ten-pound weight of luscious black cherries for something less than a rupee, and got a drink of icy-cold water for nothing, while the untended te... ...s, the money-lender, who on good secu- rity lends as much as five thousand rupees in a year. Jowala Singh, the smith, mends the village plows—some thi...

...a phenomenon as you are a blackguard. No!”—checking me a second time”not a rupee please. Go out and see if you can find the eyes-brain- and—stomach bu... ...from the crater. I gave him all the money in my possession, Rs. 9-8-5-nine rupees eight annas and five pie—for I always keep small change as bakshish ... ...ime—propounded the terms on which he would consent to “do” for me. My nine rupees eight annas, he argued, at the rate of three annas a day, would prov... ... Rickshaw and Other Ghost Stories If the man with the beard had given me a rupee I should have kept it as a memento of a rather curious affair. But th... ...Martini is worth her weight in silver among the Pathans.” “Fifteen hundred rupees of capital—every rupee we could beg, borrow, or steal—are invested o...

... na- ture taken advantage of. He’s bribed that steward of ours with a five-rupee note to let him come down—or ten for that mat- ter. He don’t care. He... ...r even how to get home to his island again. It was a matter of two hundred rupees or so, but, when I turned up, the family made a point of showing the...

...ied that in a week his men would be in the saddle, and in six months not a rupee nor a virgin would he left in Lower Bengal. That is always given as o... ...en as our conclusive justification. But is it our business to preserve the rupees and virgins of Lower Bengal in a sort of magic inconclusiveness? Bet...

...Hommajee Bommajee, who was worth she did no know how many thousand lacs of rupees. That it would behove her, on her own account and that of her daught...

...r nuts, thinking little that he was to die in an Indian jungle in quest of rupees. There is so much more of remembrance about the little walk, that —a...

... dog in the regiment,” said my friend. “I offered the little fellow twenty rupees for him a month ago. But he’s a hostage, you say, for Stanley’s good... ...ut-tax, traders’ game and mining licenses, not more than fourteen thousand rupees; every penny of it ear-marked months ahead.” Adam sighed. “Also ther... ... a fine for dogs straying in the Sahib’s camp. Last year it exceeded three rupees,” Imam Din said quietly. “Well, I thought that was fair. They howled... ...Hajji had often gloatingly appraised his skill in figures at five thousand rupees upon any slave-block. The Hajji then said to me: ‘Come, and we will ... ...man.’ I said: ‘Thou art then That One?’ The Hajji said: ‘I am ten thousand rupees reward into thy hand. Shall we make an- other law-case and get more ...

... great curiosity, a species of medal precious to the soul of misers,—three rupees with the sign of the Scales, and five rupees with the sign of the Vi... ...t you some more like it,—like those Dutch coins and the /portugaises/, the rupees of Mogul, and the genovines,— I’ll give you some more on your fete-d... ... a father know where the gold in his house has gone to? She owned the only rupees in France, perhaps, and the Dutch ducats and the genovines—” “Monsie...

...red.” Her husband stood up and 47 Rudyard Kipling knotted the last of the rupees into his waist-cloth. Mowgli helped Messua through the window, and t... ...ts of coined silver to the Government T reasury, and scat- tered the shiny rupees in the dust; how he fought Jacala, the Crocodile, all one long night...

...about three months ago he was commanding a trea- sure-guard—a cart full of rupees to pay troops with—five thousand rupees in silver. He was comin’ to ...

...touch a single bob, tizzy, tester, moidore, maravedi, doubloon, tomaun, or rupee, of the sum which Monsieur de Galgenstein had lost to him. That young...

...sont admirees avec surprise des voyageurs qui s’ecrient aussitot avec Horace: Ut mihi devio rupee et vacuum nemus mirari libet.’ The good man is not e...

... of Ramgunge in the Presidency of Ben- gal, and touching his four thousand rupees per mensem. My daughter might be a Colonel’s lady if she liked. I mi...

...37 Sir Walter Scott “Why then, we must ballast it with a few bags of Sicca rupees,” replied the Colonel. “Aha! sits the wind there? Then I suppose the...

... of Ramgunge in the Presidency of Ben- gal, and touching his four thousand rupees per mensem. My daughter might be a Colonel’s lady if she liked. I mi...

... better bring his hide to Khanhiwara, for the Government has set a hundred rupees on his life. Better still, talk not when thy elders speak.” Mowgli r... ...the buffaloes kill him? It is the Lame Tiger too, and there is a hun- dred rupees on his head. Well, well, we will over- look thy letting the herd run... ...look thy letting the herd run off, and perhaps I will give thee one of the rupees of the reward when I have taken the skin to Khanhiwara.” He fumbled ... ...u wilt take the hide to Khanhiwara for the reward, and perhaps give me one rupee? Now it is in my mind that I need the skin for my own use. Heh! Old m...

...he Plains, earning money for his Wife to spend on dresses and four-hundred-rupee bracelets, and inexpensive luxuries of that kind. He worked very hard... ...onest 31 Rudyard Kipling man, then stewing in the Plains on two hun- dred rupees a month (for he allowed his wife eight hundred and fifty), and in a ... ...to the maintenance of civil dispensa- ries last year? About seven thousand rupees.” “That’s seven hundred pounds,” said Pagett, quickly. “I wish it wa...

...d, perhaps, the handsomest man in our corps; but you have not got a single rupee. Y ou ask me for Julia, and you do not possess even an anna!”—(Here t... ... playing cards the night before, and O’Gawler had lost to me seven hundred rupees. I emptied the last of the sangaree into the two pint tumblers out o... ...ach. It settled him completely, and of course I never got my seven hundred rupees. Such are the uncertainties of war! To strap on my sabre and my acco... ...istols, his turban covered with jewels, worth a hundred thousand crores of rupees— finally, his hookah, snake mouthpiece, silver-bell, chillum and all... ...rom either,)—could I, I say, expect to live long and well upon a ragout of rupees, or a dish of stewed emeralds and rubies? With all the wealth of Cro... ...ng it, there, where I had left ingots, sacks of bright tomauns, kopeks and rupees, strings of diamonds as big as ducks’ eggs, rubies as red as the lip... ...e Prophet! the infidel has no more ammunition. A hundred thousand lakhs of rupees to the man who brings me Gahagan’s head!” His men set up a shout, an...

...olice, Martyn drew the magnifi- cent pay of six hundred depreciated silver rupees a month, and his little four-roomed bungalow said just as much. Ther... ...ight years’ service in the Irri- gation Department, and drew eight hundred rupees a month, on the understanding that if he served the State faithfully... ...another twenty-two years he could retire on a pension of some four hundred rupees a month. His working-life, which had been spent chiefly under canvas... ... plain facts about who is doing what, and so forth. Our regular rates— ten rupees a column.” “‘Sorry, but it’s out of my line,” Scott answered, starin... ...riding-habit, and a blue-grey felt hat with a gold puggaree. “I want fifty rupees, please. I forgot to ask Jack before he went away. Can you lend it m... ...hey all did well—but Scott was the most excellent, for he kept good coined rupees by him, settled for his own cart-repairs on the spot, and ran to mee... ...n almost audible jar. Still no Mrs. Jim. “That reminds me, I owe you fifty rupees for the condensed- milk. I thought perhaps you’ d be coming here whe... ... of the polo-ponies of Upper In- dia, ponies that had cost from a thousand rupees each, while they themselves were a cheap lot gathered, often from co...

... ine, and just as he staggers back, dying and satisfied, bringing a lac of rupees to buy grain with, God lifts the lac away, dropping one rupee, and s...

... the mail-runner trudges. “For Captain O’Neil, Sahib. One hundred and ten Rupees to collect on delivery.” Then (Thei... ...ht pressure to bear. “Now violate Liberty, time being bad, To mail V.P.P. (rupees hundred) Please add “Whatever Your Honour can pass. Price of Blood...

...akistan would then go to the Pakistani hawaladar and receive his money, in rupees, from whatever money the Pakistani hawaladar has on hand.As far as t...