Grams to Tola (g to tola)

1 gram equals 0.08573532418 tola (rounded).

1 gram = 0.08573532418 tola

How to convert grams to tola

To convert grams to tola, multiply the number of grams by 0.08573532418. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply tola by 11.6638038.

tola = grams × 0.08573532418

Example: 10 grams = 0.8573532418 tola.

About these units

Gram (g)

Metric (SI)Current unit

One thousandth of a kilogram. The standard unit for food quantities and small objects.

A gram was once defined as a small drop of the natural world. The French National Convention of 1795 set it as the absolute weight of a volume of pure water equal to a cube one hundredth of a metre on each side, a cubic centimetre. The reference temperature was first the melting point of ice and was later changed to the temperature of maximum density of water, about 4 degrees Celsius. The word came into French as gramme, from Late Latin gramma, itself from the Greek for a letter or small mark; in Late Antiquity it meant about one twenty-fourth of an ounce.

The gram was the base unit of mass in the centimetre-gram-second system, but in 1960 the SI took the kilogram as its base unit, which made the gram one thousandth of it. That is why it appears in so many everyday places: it is the standard for non-liquid ingredients in cooking and shopping, and nutrition labels commonly list contents per 100 g. For a sense of scale, a small paper clip or a pen cap weighs about a gram, and a Japanese 1-yen coin is close to exactly that, while a US penny is around 2.5 g.

1 gram = 0.001 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Gram; Wikipedia: Kilogram

Tola (tola)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

180 grains, about 11.6638 g. The traditional South Asian unit for gold and silver, still the basis of gold prices in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

Tola comes from a Sanskrit word for weighing, and the unit was traditionally the weight of 100 ratti seeds, the red-and-black seeds of the rosary pea used by Indian goldsmiths. Its weight differed from place to place. Akbar's coins were close to a tola, and Sher Shah Suri's rupee was about one percent lighter than the later British tola.

In 1833 Regulation VII of the British government in India fixed it at 180 troy grains, or about 11.6638 g, exactly three eighths of a troy ounce. The earlier Bengal sicca standard, one Murshidabad rupee, was about 179.67 grains, so this was more tidying up than change. A tola divided into 12 masha of 8 ratti each, and 80 tolas made a seer. Zanzibar's tola was lighter, around 11.34 g. India officially dropped it in 1956, yet gold is still sold by the tola, notably as 10-tola bars, across India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and the Gulf.

1 tola = 0.0116638038 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Tola (unit); Wikipedia: Seer (unit)

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