A suitcase lands in Mumbai carrying a Dubai-bought bangle, and a question lands with it. The imported gold hallmark position in India runs on one distinction: jewellery brought in for personal wear needs no BIS hallmark to sit in a locker, while any piece headed for sale must carry one, since India's mandatory hallmarking regime covers all gold jewellery sold in the country, imported or not. Between those two poles sits the pledge, where lenders assess purity themselves but a hallmark smooths everything. This guide covers who the rules touch, from NRIs and returning travellers to traders, the customs allowance under the new Baggage Rules, the step-by-step hallmarking process at an Indian centre, the purity grades BIS accepts, why a foreign stamp does not count, and what all of it means at a gold loan counter.

Indian households sit on a staggering quantity of gold, upwards of 25,000 tonnes by some industry estimates, and for generations the only way to add to it was a visit to a jeweller. The history of digital gold in India is the story of that habit meeting a smartphone. In under a decade, buying gold went from a counter transaction to a two-tap purchase of ₹10, and then ran into the hard questions every fast-growing product eventually faces about regulation and trust. This guide walks the full digital gold timeline: the fintech launch years of 2018 and 2019, the pandemic surge, the regulatory turn from 2022, the consolidation that followed, and where the market stands in 2026, closing with how digital gold compares against its regulated cousins and where a gold loan sits for households holding physical metal.

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