Jow
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A jow is an obsolete unit of length in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 approximately equal 0.25 inch
Inch
An inch is the name of a unit of length in a number of different systems, including Imperial units, and United States customary units. There are 36 inches in a yard and 12 inches in a foot...

 (about 0.63 cm
Centimetre
A centimetre is a unit of length in the metric system, equal to one hundredth of a metre, which is the SI base unit of length. Centi is the SI prefix for a factor of . Hence a centimetre can be written as or — meaning or respectively...

). After metrication in India
Metrication in India
Metrication or metrification is the process of converting to the metric system based on the International System of Units . India's conversion to the metric system occurred in stages between 1955 and 1962...

in the mid-20th century, the unit became obsolete.
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