Tola ( unit ) - wikipedia Tola ( unit ) For other uses, see Tola ( disambiguation ). Silver rupee coins, issued by the British East India Company, were a practical standard for the tola. 400 tolas British Indian units of mass Mughal Empire 1 maund = 40 seers 1 seer = 30 dams 1 dam = 5 tanks 1 tank = 3 mashas 1 masha = 8 ruttees Bengal Presidency 1 maund = 8 passerees 1 passeree = 5 seers 1 seer = 16 chitaks 1 chitak = 5 tolas 1 tola = 12 mashas 1 masha = 8 rattis 1 ratti = 4 dhans Regulation VII 1833 fixed the mass of one tola as 180 troy grains ( 11.663 8038 grams ) Bombay Presidency 1 candy = 20 maunds 1 maund = 40 seers 1 seer = 72 tanks The maund was fixed at 28 pounds avoirdupois ( 1⁄4 hundredweight ) ( 12.700 586 36 kilograms ) Madras Presidency 1 candy = 20 maunds 1 maund = 8 vis 1 vis = 5 seers 1 seer = 8 pollums 1 pollum = 10 pagodas The maund was fixed at 25 pounds avoirdupois ( 11.339 809 25 kilograms ) The tola ( Hindi : तोला ; Urdu : تولا ‎ ; Bengali : তোলা ; tolā. from Sanskrit : तोलकः ; tolaka ) Punjabi ਤੋਲਾ, also transliterated as tolah or tole, is a traditional Ancient Indian and South Asian unit of mass, now standardised as 180 troy grains ( 11.663 8038 grams ) or exactly 3 / 8 troy ounce. It was the base unit of mass in the British Indian system of weights and measures introduced in 1833, although it had been in use for much longer. It was also used in Aden and Zanzibar : in the latter, one tola was equivalent to 175.90 troy grains ( 0.97722222 British tolas, or 11.33980925 grams ). The tola is a Vedic measure, with the name derived from the Sanskrit tol ( तोलः root तुल् ) meaning `` weighing '' or `` weight ''. One tola was traditionally the weight of 100 ratti ( ruttee ) seeds, and its exact weight varied according to locality. However, it is also a convenient mass for a coin : several pre-colonial coins, including the currency of Akbar the Great ( 1556 -- 1605 ), had a mass of `` one tola '' within slight variation. The very first rupee ( Urdu : رپيا ‎ ; rupayā ), minted by Sher Shah Suri ( 1540 -- 45 ), had a mass of 178 troy grains, or about 1 % less than the British tola. The British East India Company issued a silver rupee coin of 180 troy grains, and this became the practical standard mass for the tola well into the 20th century. The British tola of 180 troy grains ( from 1833 ) can be seen as more of a standardisation than a redefinition : the previous standard in the Bengal Presidency, the system of `` sicca weights '', was the mass of one Murshidabad rupee, 179.666 troy grains. For the larger weights used in commerce ( in the Bengal Presidency ), the variation in the pre-1833 standards was found to be greater than the adjustment. The tola formed the base for units of mass under the British Indian system, and was also the standard measure of gold and silver bullion. Although the tola has been officially replaced by metric units since 1956, it is still in current use, and is a popular denomination for gold bullion bars in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Singapore, with a ten tola bar being the most commonly traded. In Nepal, minting of tola size gold coins continue up to the present, even though the currency of Nepal is called rupee and has no official connection to the tola. It is also used in most gold markets ( bazars / souks ) in the United Arab Emirates and in all the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf ( GCC ) countries. Tola is still used as a measure of charas. ( Indian hashish ) See also Troy ounce Dus Tola References ^ Jump up to : Prinsep, James ( 1840 ), Useful tables, forming an appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society : part the first, Coins, weights, and measures of British India ( 2nd ed. ), Calcutta : Bishop 's College Press, pp. 65 -- 74, 79 -- 90. Jump up ^ tola, Sizes, Inc. Jump up ^ Platts, John T. ( 1884 ), A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English, London : W.H. Allen & Co., p. 344, archived from the original on 2012 - 05 - 27. Jump up ^ Martin, Robert Montgomery. Statistics of the colonies of the British empire, London : W.H. Allen and Co., 1839, p. 143. Jump up ^ Prinsep ( 1840 ), pp. 45 -- 53. Jump up ^ Mughal Coinage, RBI Monetary Museum, archived from the original on 2008 - 05 - 16, retrieved 2008 - 05 - 04. Jump up ^ Silberrad, C.A. ( 1922 ), `` New Weights and Measures for India '', Nature, 110 ( 2770 ) : 735, Bibcode : 1922Natur. 110Q. 735S, doi : 10.1038 / 110735a0 Jump up ^ Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1956 ( No. 89 of 1956 ) Archived 2009 - 09 - 28 at the Wayback Machine... Jump up ^ Green, Timothy ( 1970 ). The world of gold. Simon and Schuster. pp. 103, 179. Jump up ^ David Hooper, F.C.S., F.L.S. ( September 19, 1908 ). `` Charas of Indian Hemp ''. Pharmaceutical journal : A weekly record of pharmacy and allied sciences. J. Churchill : 347. CS1 maint : Multiple names : authors list ( link ) External links Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tola. 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Question: how many grams are in 1 tola gold
Answer: 11.663 8038 grams