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CRORE (Hindustani karor)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 505 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CRORE (Hindustani karor)  , an Anglo-See also:Indian See also:term for a See also:hundred lakhs or ten million . It is in See also:common use for See also:statistics of See also:trade and especially coinage . In the days when the See also:rupee was See also:worth its See also:face value of 2S. a See also:crore of rupees was exactly worth a million See also:sterling, but now that the rupee is fixed at 15 to the £1, a crore is only worth £666,666 .

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