This sub-template returns the associated country's CPI for a specific year. It's used by {{Inflation/doc}} for calculating the inflation rate between two given years, which in turn is used by {{Inflation}} to calculate inflated values. It usually isn't meant to be called directly. The sources for this dataset are Prices and Wages in India, 1595-1930 for 1595 to 1872, Nominal Wage, Cost of Living and Real Wage Data for India 1873-1939 and Land Prices for the Punjab 1871-1939 for 1873 to 1919, Inflation 1800-2000 from 1920 to 1953, and Historic inflation India - CPI inflation from 1954 to 2020.

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Providing no parameter or providing an invalid parameter will result in the "default" CPI, what usually means the latest one.