Two good friends of mine are Indian. From what I've asked them your description is quite current. I was intruiged by all the Indian foods found in Canada being packaged in "rational" imperial quantities rather than rational metric quantities. My friends told me that this is because India doesn't have the same packaging standards as "the west" and most foods are shipped either to Britain or the US in bulk, repackaged in smaller amounts and shipped to/across North America. greg >>> Krishna Kambhampaty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2001-04-30 08:54:56 >>> Louis, Bon jour. I don't have current knowledge but I used to live there. We predominantly used metric measures for official or semi-official purposes. In engineering school, given my age, we used CGS giving way to MKSA and eventually SI. Colloquial use of "miles", "feet", "yards" and "acres" are fairly common, though most people have the metric equivalents in mind. It appears that many people use meters and yards almost interchangeably. There are also many indigenous units like "bhiga" (areal) etc. Mass is always in kilograms with standard prefixes. Distances are usually in meters with standard prefixes. Temperatures always in degrees Celsius (with the usual propensity to say Centigrade as in most "old" metric countries). Everyday volumes in liters with prefixes. Large volumes are in cubic meters. BTW, no "inches" All this was formalized, although metric measures were in use since independence in 1947, through the enactment of law (http://fcamin.nic.in/wm_1976.htm ). If I find additional references I'll post them later. HTH. Krishna Louis JOURDAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Who has information about metrication in India ? Thanks Louis Krishna Kambhampaty [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================S=I====R=U=L=E=S==================== Interested in a Metric America in your lifetime? Discuss the issues at http://www.delphi.com/metric/start --------------------------------- Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices
