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ANNA (Hindustani ana)

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 59 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANNA (Hindustani
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ana)  , an
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Indian
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penny, the sixteenth
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part of a
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rupee . The
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term belongs to the
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Mahommedan monetary
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system (see RuPEE) . There is no
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coin of one
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anna, but there are
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half-annas of
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copper and two-anna pieces of
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silver . The term anna is frequently used to
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express a fraction . Thus an Anglo-Indian speaks of two annas of dark
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blood (an
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octoroon), a four-anna (
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quarter)
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crop, an eight-anna (half) gallop .

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