A note on the seer: A traditional unit of mass and volume, the seer was
officially declared equal to 0.93310 kg, or 2.057131 lb, by the
Standards of Weights and Measures Act of 1956. Before that, different...
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A note on the seer: A traditional unit of mass and volume, the seer was
officially declared equal to 0.93310 kg, or 2.057131 lb, by the
Standards of Weights and Measures Act of 1956. Before that, different
regions of the country had their own takes on the measurement: in Bengal, a
seer was equal to 80 tolas of rice; in Southern India, it corresponded to the mass
of 24 “current” rupees, while in Juggerat it was equal to the mass of 40 “local”
rupees; in Chennai it was equivalent to approximately 25 pounds, while in Bombay,
they called it the Old Seer, and put it at an even 28. Rarely used now in
India, the seer still enjoys prominence in Afghanistan and Iran, though of
course the Iranian and Afghani seers have nothing to do with either the Indian
seer or each other. Question: can a currency have an identity crisis?
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