Maunds to Ounces (maund to oz)

1 maund equals 1,316.571429 ounces (rounded).

1 maund = 1,316.571429 ounces

How to convert maunds to ounces

To convert maunds to ounces, multiply the number of maunds by 1,316.571429. The factor is rounded to 10 significant digits. To go the other way, multiply ounces by 0.0007595486111 (rounded).

ounces = maunds × 1,316.571429

Example: 10 maunds = 13,165.71429 ounces.

About these units

Maund (maund)

Indian subcontinentTraditional unit (still used in some regions)

40 seers, about 37.32 kg (82 2/7 lb). The standard British Indian unit for bulk goods; values varied across regions.

Across the Indian subcontinent the maund, also spelled mun or mann, served for centuries as the working weight of the grain market, the warehouse and the tax collector. Its size was never fixed. A survey made for the East India Company in 1821 found Bengal maunds near 80 pounds, Bombay maunds near 28 pounds, and Madras maunds near 25 pounds, while a few western districts used 64-seer maunds of well over 130 pounds.

Earlier rulers had their own values too. Estimates for the Delhi Sultanate under Alauddin Khalji are around 15 kg, and for Akbar's Mughal Empire anywhere from about 15.75 kg to 21.3 kg depending on how the sources are read. The word has a close counterpart in the Ottoman and Central Asian batman.

The Bengal Presidency settled the matter for British India in 1833 by defining the maund as 100 troy pounds, or 82.28 pounds avoirdupois, and the standard spread across the Raj. It was divided into 40 seers. After independence the figure was restated as 37.3242 kg, which is the one used here. Wikipedia notes that Bangladesh and the southern plains of Nepal use a rounded 40 kg maund, and that its own article gives Pakistan both 40 kg and 37.3242 kg.

1 maund = 37.32417216 kilograms (exactly).

Sources: Wikipedia: Maund (unit)

Ounce (oz)

US & ImperialCurrent unit

One sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g. Used for food, mail and consumer goods in the US and UK.

A twelfth part is what ounce originally meant. It comes from the Roman uncia, one twelfth of the Roman pound, a word that also gave English the inch. The abbreviation oz does not come from English at all but from the Italian onza or oncia. Over the centuries many regions and trades used different ounces: the English Tower ounce of 29.16 g was abolished by Henry VIII in 1527, and the Dutch ons was redefined as exactly 100 g in 1820.

The avoirdupois ounce used for everyday goods is one sixteenth of a pound, exactly 28.349523125 g or 437.5 grains, the standard in the US and under the UK imperial system. It is not the same as the troy ounce for precious metals, and neither is the fluid ounce, which measures volume. Ounces still describe portions such as steaks and burgers, and they show up in unexpected places: fabric is graded by weight per area, so a 16 oz denim is a heavy cloth, and the copper on a circuit board is specified in ounces, where 1 oz is roughly 34.7 micrometres thick.

1 ounce = 0.02834952313 kilograms (approximately).

Sources: Wikipedia: Ounce; NIST Guide to the SI, Appendix B.8 (mass conversions)

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