Tata Motors entered the passenger vehicle market in 1988 with the launch of the TataMobile followed by the Tata Sierra in 1991, becoming the first Indian manufacturer to achieve the capability of developing a competitive indigenous automobile. In 1998, Tata launched the first fully indigenous Indian passenger car, the Indica, and in 2008 launched the Tata Nano, the world's cheapest car. Tata Motors acquired the South Korean truck manufacturer Daewoo Commercial Vehicles Company in 2004 and purchased Jaguar Land Rover from Ford in 2008. Tata Motors is listed on the (BSE) Bombay Stock Exchange, where it is a constituent of the BSE
Indian rupee devalued against the $ in 1949, impacting currencies that maintained a peg to sterling, such as the . The gold silver ratio expanded during 1870–1910. Unlike India, Britain was on gold standard. To meet the Home Charges (i.e., expenditure in England) the colonial government had to remit a larger number of rupees and this necessitated increased taxation, unrest and nationalism. Indian rupee The Indian rupee (sign: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency of India. The rupee is subdivided into 100 "paise" (singular "paisa"), though as of 2018, coins of denomination of 50 paise or half rupee is the lowest