Tom Alexander, a long time patron, writes that even one hour of Googling did not tell him how much was one Lakh. I was surprised, because Google understands stuff like how much is "1024 in binary", and there certainly are more people using Lakh and Crore as a unit system than Binary as a unit system!
So I wrote up a small article on understanding Indian units of money.
See Also: Indian Coins and Currencies
