INDIA COMMEMORATIVES STAMPS 1971

 

Centenary of Indian Life Insurance

 

Stamp Issue Date	:	11/01/1971
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	0.20
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0631
Postal Stamp Name	:	HANDS AND LAMP
Stamp Information	:	The story of insurance is probablyy as old as the story of mankind. However, the concept of the 'life insurance',as now understood, is largely a development of the last 400 years. The institution of joint families in India had for ages afforded complete protection to all its members and under its allprevading shades, its members never suffered from any want. With the gradual breaking up of the joint family system, the modern concept of life insurance has been gaining ground progressively. Life insurance business in India was in vogue prior to 1870. But its benefits were available mainly to European settlers or limited sectarian groups. Life insurance policies were issued mostly by European companies. In several cases the benifit of life insurance was not available to every one due to rstrictions of caste and creed. 1870 marked a turning point i the history of Life Insurance in India. It was in that year that the firts truly INdian Life Insurance Company was started, which accepted Indian lives freely for the first time without any retriction of distinction. Since then the story of Indian LIfe Insurance has been one of the steady progress. The development of life insurance in the early stage was fostered by a good measure of competition between foreign insurers and the Indian initiative. This rivalry went a long way in enhancing thepopularity of life insurance in our country. There were many benefits which were offered to the policy holders as a result of such healthy competition. In the wake of the political conciousness that swept the entire sub-continent, insurance business recieved an added impetus that ultimately resulted in diversification of insurance plans, liberal returns and efficient servicing. Immediately precending the World War II, legislationtha culminated in the Insurance Act of 1938 helped the Indian insurers in maintaining sound and healthy business growth. The Act aimed to protect the interests of the policyholders. While, initially, the insurance was used simply to provide a sum of money at death or the expiry of a specified term, gradually it was realised that the mobilisation of savings for the public good was even more vitak a factor. On January 19, 1956, the Government nationalised life insurance business and the Life Insurance Corporation came into being on September 1, 1956, taking over the liabilities of some 245 private insurers and Provident Fund Societies operating in the country. Woth a monopoly of life insurance business in the country, the LIC stands guard over the hopes and future of millions of families and has been a great source of general economic strength. The Corporation has acquired stature and stability as the largest nationalised life insurance institution in the democratic world. From a business of a little over Rs. 300 crores in 1957, its new business shot up to over Rs 1000 crores this year. The immense magnitude of its operations can be gauged by the fact that the total business in force is now over Rs. 6.425 crores and continues to grow year by year. As a matter of interesting coincides, it may be observed that the actual entry of the State in the sphere of the insurance was contemplated in the year 1870. The death of a Postmaster in harness around that year, leaving his family in indigent circumstances aroused public opinion and prompted a demand for the introduction of Government sponsored scheme of the insurance. The outcome of this demand was the introduction of a scheme of life insurance in 1883 by the Postal Department for its employees which was by stages extended to cover all Government and quasi-Government employees. The Life Insurance Corporation has just celebrated the Centenary of Indian life assurance industry in India and the Posts and Telegraphs Department feels privileged to associate itself with this event by bringing out a commemorative stamp on this occasion.
Philatelic Stamp Description	:	The design of the stamp is vertical and depicts two hands protecting the flame of life.
Stamp Currency	:	P
Stamp Type	:	COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language	:	English
Stamp Overall Size	:	3.91 x 2.9
Postal Stamp Print Size	:	3.56 x 2.5 cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet	:	35
Stamp Perforations	:	13 x 13
Postal Stamp Shape	:	Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper	:	Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper
Indian Stamp Process	:	Photogravure
Number of stamps printed	:	30,00,000
Stamp Printed At	:	India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color	:	Sepia and Crimson

 Kashi Vidyapith University - 50th Anniversary

 

 Decennial Census - Centenary

 

Stamp Issue Date	:	10/03/1971
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	0.20
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0636
Postal Stamp Name	:	CROWD AND 100
Stamp Information	:	The first comprehensive population census of the country was completed in 1871-72, and thereafter a regular chin of decenial enumeration was established. And now, 1971 marks the completion of hundred years of regular decennial census taking in Indiaand the census enumeration commences on the 10th March, 1971. India accounts for more than one-seventh of the population of the world and its census is, therfore, of particular significance. The India population census is one of the largest administrative operations in the world, in which more than a million honorary workers are trained and engaged on census enumerarion duties. It is an operation in which the Central and the State Governments, local bodies and the people function in closest co-operation on voluntary basis, symbolising the identity of interest of all concerned in the success of this national venture. Notwithstanding the vastness of the country. the mmense size of its population, the inacesibility of several areas and major political changes and even in the face of world wars, India has always taken the netional stock-taking through the census in the first year of every decade since 1871 and built a rich tradition which has won the Indian Census source of information about the country. In India, the collection of population statisticks as a measure of State policy was recognised as early as the third century B.C. as one finds its mention in Kautilya's 'Arthasastra.' The word 'census' is of Roman origin derived from the 'censors' or the magistrates in ancient Rome who prepared a register of population for the purpose of taxation and conscription to the military services. The objectives of ancient censuses being unpopular with the people, censuses were almost given up in the medieval period. But, as the need for modern welfare States for such purposes as demarcation of electoral areas, scientific and developmental planning and administartion and educational, health and other social welfare programmes, the censuses in modern sense of the term were started to be taken from about the seventeenth/eighteenth centuries. In India, the East India Company made estmates of population of some of its local posessions in the middle of the 17th century. The frst Indian Census, thoughtermed as the 1871 Censuses, was a compilation of enumeration spread over till 1872, an may, therefore, be called non-synchronous. It however, had a uniform schedule and did encompass the basic demographic, social and economical characteristics and thus laid the foundation of decennial censuses in the country. Since the dawn of independence and the commemncement of the palnning era, the census operations in India were geared to the production of much needed data. Efforts have been made ti introduce more and more sophisticated techniques of collectio and sophisticated techniques of collection and processing of data to meet the growing demand for a veriety of population statistics, Census is not a mere counting of heads, but involves the collection of several demographics, social, cultural and economic characteistics of evry individual which are all comiled and presented in the form of meaningful tables for the consumption of data-useres. It has also been collecting data of housing and establishments. The Indian Census has the tradition of producing analytical reports and organising other ancillary studies to enrich the census statistics. Th year 1961, saw the introduction of conventional machines to process census data, though practically. It is a matter of satisfaction that the 1971 Census figures are being tribulated through electronic computers to produce major portion of the Census accurately and in time. The Posts and Telegraphs Department is happy to associate itself with the centenary of the regular decennial census in India by issuing a special postage stamp to commemorate the 1971 census. This stamp is dedicated to the vast army of enumerators who are responsible for the census and to the people of India without whos co-operation in this national undertaking, the task of enumeration will not be possible.
Philatelic Stamp Description	:	DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and depicts a cross section of the people of India within the figure one hundred representing the census century.
Stamp Currency	:	P
Stamp Type	:	COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language	:	English
Stamp Overall Size	:	3.91 x 2.9
Postal Stamp Print Size	:	3.56 x 2.5 cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet	:	35
Stamp Perforations	:	13 x 13
Postal Stamp Shape	:	Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper	:	Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper
Indian Stamp Process	:	Photogravure
Number of stamps printed	:	30,00,000
Stamp Printed At	:	India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color	:	Maltese Blue and dark Brown

 Raja Ravi Verma ( Artist ) - 65th Death Anniversary

 

Stamp Issue Date	:	29/04/1971
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	0.20
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0638
Postal Stamp Name	:	RAJA RAVI VERMA (DAMAYANTI AND SWAN)
Stamp Information	:	Raja Ravi Varma was undoubtedly one of the great Indian artists of his day. He founded a new school of painting and he is even today held in high esteem as one of the foremost artists in INdia. Ravi Varma was born on 29th April, 1848 in Killimanoor, which now forms part of the trivendrum District of Kerala. During his childhood, his uncle, Raja Raja Varma who was one of the leading artists of his time, gave young Ravi Varma guidance innthe art of painting. Raja Ravi Varma soon began to portray in eloquent colours striking scences from Hindu mythology. In 1868, Theodore Jenson, a famous English painter visited Travancore State and young Ravi Varma was introduced to him. Jenson greatly admired the manner in which the youthful artist amnipulated light and shade on the face of his subjects and Jenson opened to young Ravi Varma the immense possibilities in the realm of oil colours. The first portraits he painted were those of the members of the royal household. His studies on canvas were very much praiseworthy. Thus, he entered the domain on imagination where his ability found ample scope for winning world-fame as the master painter of portraits. He participated in the exhibition held in Madras in 1873. He won the first prize in that exhibition and form that day his success was assured. His work was acclaimed at the Poona Exhibition of 1880 and also at the exhibition held in Vienna nad Chicago in 1892. In 1885, Ravi Varma was invited by the Maharaja of Mysore to paint the portrait of His Highness and his family. At the invitation of Gaikwar of Baroda, Ravi Varma spent a couple of years in Baroda from 1888, contributing a number of excellent pictures to the Art Gallery of the Palce. Later, he took extensive tour throughout North India and in the course of 2 years, finished 14 pictures which were later exhibited in Bombay. Soon there was a huge increase in the demands for the pictures. On the advice of the then Dewan of Baroda, Ravi Varma established an oleographic press to meet the ever-increasing demand and place the copies of his pictures within easy reach of all. Thus, began an era of mass production of is popular paintings. Ravi Varma was invited to the court of Udaipur to paint the portrait of Maharana and his ancestors. Maharana Pratap's portrait by Ravi Varma is considered a master-piece in portrait paintings. In 1904, he was commissioned to paint Sir Arthur Havelock's picture for the Madras Government House. In the same year, Kaisar-e-Hind Gold Medal was awarded to Ravi Varma. Tis was the first time, an artist was given this signal honour. At the height of his glory and fortune, Raja Ravi Varma sold out the press at Bombay and returned to Killimanoor, where he continued his creative activities. He was a very prolific painter and his origins are mostly owned by various public and private galleries in Bombay, LAxmi Vilas Palace at Baroda, Mysore Palace and Udaipur Palace and in the National Art Gallery, New Delhi and Salarjang Museum. There is a fairly representative collection of his more important paintings in the Ravi Varma Gallery in Srichitra Art Gallery at Trivandrum. He died in October, 1906, at Attingal Trivandrum. His work lives and will continue to live through all ages with untarnished brillience and ever increasing importance, always inspiring, eliciting, warmhearted esteem from all intelligent lovers of art. The Posts and Telegraphs Department is happy to bring out a special commemorative stamp in honour of Raja Ravi Varma, the great Indian artist on the occasion of his 123rd birth anniversary. The stamp depicts one of his famous paintings 'Damayanti and the swan' along with the portrait of the artist.
Philatelic Stamp Description	:	DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is vertical and depicts one of the famous paintings 'Damayanti and the Swan' of the artist Raja Ravi Varma along with his portrait.
Stamp Currency	:	P
Stamp Type	:	COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language	:	English
Stamp Overall Size	:	3.91 x 2.9
Postal Stamp Print Size	:	3.56 x 2.5 cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet	:	35
Stamp Perforations	:	13 x 13
Postal Stamp Shape	:	Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper	:	Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper
Indian Stamp Process	:	Photogravure
Number of stamps printed	:	30,00,000
Stamp Printed At	:	India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color	:	Olive Green

 World Thrift Day

Stamp Issue Date : 31/10/1971 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.20 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0643 Postal Stamp Name : GLOBE AND MONEY BOX Stamp Information : 31st of October every year is observed in many countries as the World Thrift Day. On this day, savings institutions and workers revive their faith in the ideal of thrift as a step to human happiness. The origin of this innovation goes to the year 1924. In that year, the International Savings Bank Congress held in Mian, proclaimed the last day of the meet, 31st October to be observed as World Thrift Day. The resolution, among other things, emphasised the practice and propaganda of saving, and that 31st October would be specially devoted to the promotion of thrift from an International standpoint. The significance of the World Thrift day is that it provides a unique opportunity to strengthen the ties with the public. It is a day on which the savings banks stand in full light of pulicity, when young and old hurry, to the savings banks in oreder to take part in the festivities. World Thrift Day provides an opportunity to impress on the entire saving bank staff the importance of the atsk of rendering sevice to the public. In India, the National Savings Organisation has been closely associated with the activities of the World Thrift Day. The annual National Savings Fortnight is inaugurated on that day. The foundations for the first savings institution in India were held in the year 1833 when the Presidency Bank of Calcutta was established to provide for "the investment of the savings of all classes - British and native". Later, the Presidency Bnaks at Madras and Bombay started accepting savings deposites in 1834 and 1835, rspectively. In the 1860's the question of extension of the scheme to the whole of India was considered, modelling on the Postal Savings Banks, which worked with "great Success" in England. Thus, the Post Office Savings Bank came into being in 1881 with the primary object of providing facielity of investment of the savings to the common man thereby encouraging the habit of thrift. However, there was no organised savings movement as such in existence in India to work for the mobilisation of savings os the people till the Second World War. In October, 1943, the Government of India set up the National Savings Central Bureau in Simla with a small staff primarly to promote thrift, to counteract the inflationary trends coaused in the economy during the Second World War and to collect funds to finance the war efforts. With the encouraging results achieved by the Bureau with the co-operation of the Provincial Governments in the steady mobilisation of resources in the country, the Government of India reorganised the savings movement in May, 1948, in order to sustain and develop publicinterest in the movement. A full fledged national savings organisation now functions in the country with the Savings is a virtue and a discipline for every citizen. savings and investment in approved small saving schemes help not only the sver but also the country which has to find resources for the various nation-building schemes to achieve a sustained rate of growth of the national income and to fight the inflationary trends. The Posts and Telegraphs Department plays an important role in promoting habits of thrift and feel privileged to be associated with the world wide celebrations of the World Thrift Day by bringing out this special commemorative stamp. Philatelic Stamp Description : DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and depicts a picture of the Globe and a saving box in the middle with two hands each holding a coin. Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 x 2.2 Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.80 X 2.0 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 50 Stamp Perforations : 14 x 14,1/ Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Blue Grey

 UNESCO. - 25th Anniversary

Stamp Issue Date : 04/11/1971 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.20 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0644 Postal Stamp Name : AJANTA CAVES PAINTING Stamp Information : Created in 1946, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural organisation (UNESCO) is one of the specialised agencies of the uNited Nations family composed of 125 Member-States. The purpose of the Organisation as defined in its constitution is: "To contribute to peace and security by promoting colaborations among the nations through education, science and culture in order to further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental fredoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distniction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations." The constitution further says: "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the dfences of peace must be constucted." The range of activities falling within the ambit of UNESCO is wide; in fact, this Organisation has been called "the least specialised of the Specialised Agencies." However, the three main functons of UNESCO are: (i) international intellectual co-operation; (ii) assistance of Member-States; and (iii) promotion of peace and human rights and mutual understanding among peoples. International Intellectual co-operation in the fields of education, science, culture and communications is the basis of all UNESCO's work. The activities include co-operation of international scientific efforts, standardisation od documntation procedures, clearing house services, etc. A great number of new nations which have achieved independence since UNESCO was created, have acted as a spur to redoubled efforts in operational assistance to the needy States. Such aid to Member-States at their reqest now occupies the major part of UNESCO's staff and financial resources. While all UNESCO's activities contribute, directly or indrectly, to the promotion of peace an human rights and mutual understanding, certain specific programmes in this field including scientific research of problems of race, discrimination and prejudice, encouragement of teaching about the U. N. and education for intrnational understanding, etc. are carried out by the organisation. The Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the U. N. General Assembly in 1948 was drafted with the co-operation of UNESCO. In India, UNESCO has collaborated in a number of ventures falling within the ambit of its activities. In a project financed by UNDP, UNESCO has been providing the services of foreign professors for the regional engineering colleges in India. UNESCO/UNDP have also been closely associated in the exicution of a number of scientific projects in the various institutions under the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India. UNESCO has also provided assistance for strengthening of teaching and have also assisted in the research programmes undertaken at the at the centres of advanced studies at the Universities of Delhi, Punjab, Bombay and Madras and at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. Earlier, the Universities of Osmania, Calcutta and Jadavpur had received assistance under this programme. The international campaign undertaked by the UNESCO to save the monuments of Nubia at Abu Simbel is well known. UNESCO is also associated with another international campaign for saving the glories of Florence and Venice for humanity. In India, UNESCO is actively associated with a project for the preservation of paintings in the Ajanta And Ellora Caves. UNESCO is also associated with the possibilities of rehabilating the temples at Srirangam. India is one of the Founder-Member of the UNESCO and is actively participating in the world-wide celebrations of the 25th Anniversary of the founding of the UNESCO. The Indian P &T Department are privileged to be associated with these celebrations on the occasion of the 25th Anniversary of UNESCO. The commemorating stamp being brought out on the occasion, in India depicts a painting in the Ajanta Caves, where a UNESCO project for preservation of these paintings is in progress. Philatelic Stamp Description : DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is vertical and depicts a painting in the Ajanta Caves. The symbol of UNESCO is also shown at the bottom right hand corner. Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 x 2.9 Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.56 x 2.5 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 35 Stamp Perforations : 14 x 14,1/ Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Red Brown

 Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman 

Stamp Issue Date : 21/11/1971 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.20 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0652 Postal Stamp Name : C.V. RAMAN (SCIENTIST) Stamp Information : Shri Chandrashekhar Venkat Raman was born at Tiruchirapalli, in Sout India, on 7th November, 1888. When he was 4 years old, his father accepted an appointment as a lecturer in {hysics in a college at Vishakhapatnam where Raman completed his High School education. In 1903, Raman joined the Presidency College, Madras, where he tok his B.A. and M.A. degrees, winning the highest distinctions. Even as a student at the Presidency College, young Raman took considerable interest in scientific research which was then almost unknown in India and had also published the results of his work in well-known International journals. It was very obvious even at that time, that he was cut out for a distinguished scientific career. In 1907, Shri Raman was appointed as Assistant Accountant General at Calcutta, having secured the first place in the competetive examination held by the Indian Finance Department. For a time, Shri Raman was associated with the P & T Department when he was Deputy Accountant-General for P & T at Calcutta. For nearly a decade Shri Raman, while serving in the Indian Finance Department, also found time to keep alive his interest in science and for contributing papers in different branches of Physics. When the Palit Chair of Physics was endowed at Calcutta University, Shri Raman accepted the appointment in 1917, even though he was financialy a loser in resigning from a lucrative appointment under the Government of India. The period from 1917 to 1932 was one of the intense scientific activity for Shri Raman. Many youngmen gathered around Shri Raman and many of his notable achievements in the realms of acoustics and optics pertained to this era. As a natural sequel to his studies on the scattering of light, Shri Raman discovered i early 1928 a new phenomenon, now named after his name as "Raman efect". In 1930, Shri Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery which found innumerable uses in unravelling the molecular structure of very many complicated compounds. Honours came to Shri Raman from far and wide. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1924 and was knighted in 1929. Shri Raman established the Indian Academy of Sciences with Headquarters at Bangalore in the year 1934 and continued his association with this Academy till his death. In 1933, Shri Raman was appointed as Deirector of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. Since 1948 till his death he had been Director of the newly founded Raman Research Institute, Banglaore, to which he himself made substantial gifts of money, securities and the real estate. The Institute boasts of an impressive collection of minerals, diamonds, etc., which Shri Raman assidously collected from all over te world. The later day research of Shri Raman on the structure of diamonds and other gem stones was carried out at this institute. Besides being an outstanding genius in science, Shri Raman was also a god public speaker and his lectures always attracted popular attention. His very simple and unassuming manners, his delicate sense of humour and his love of music gathered around him a number of friends from different walks of life. Shri Ramn died after a brief illness in the early hours of the morning of Saturday, the 21st November, 1970. His mortal remains were cremated in the premises of the Institute which is founded and nursed assiduously in his later life. The P & T Department are privileged to honour this illustrious son of India who helped put India on the scientific map of the modern world. The commemorative stamp which is being brought out on the occasion of his first death anniversary shows a portrait of Shri C. V. Raman with a diamond in the foreground. The First day Cover being brought out on the occasion shows the Raman Research Institute at Bangalore. Philatelic Stamp Description : DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and depicts a portrait of Dr. C. V. Raman. TERMS OF SALE Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 x 2.9 Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.56 x 2.5 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 35 Stamp Perforations : 13 x 13 Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Orange and Dark Brown

 Charter of Cyrus the Great - 2500th Anniversary

 

Stamp Issue Date	:	12/10/1971
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	0.20
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0642
Postal Stamp Name	:	CYRUS THE GREAT & PROCESSION
Stamp Information	:	Iran, the cradle of one of the most ancient civilisations, has stood for almost fifty centuries as a bridge in both a geographical and cultural sense between the great civilisations of Asia on the one hand and those of West Asia and the Mediterranean on the other. This geographical situation led to Iran becoming the recipient of ethnic groups as well as ideas and techniques from all sides, often to be spread abroad again to countries East and West. Thus manu trends in Iranian culture have been blended into the cultural pattern of nations of both Asia and Europe. 2. Iran's emergence as a political and milirary force on the stage of history took place in the sixth century B.C. under the Achaemenids. In 550 B.C., Cyrus was crowned " King of the Persians". His subsquent military career was a brillient one and led to the conquest of Babylon in 538 B.C. Cyrus, howere, was not merely a military genius. He is remembered to this day on account of the new standerds of toleration and broadmindedness whish he instituted in the ancient world. These ideas of Cyrus the Great were enshrined in a Charter issued by him after the fall of Babylon. The Charter, whose Babylonian text is now preserved in the British Museum,m spoke of the Great King's desire to prevent the terrorisation of his people freedom of religious worship and adequate guarantees for the protection of religious shrines. 3. These were new and unheard of ideas and subsequent history has paid eloquent tributes to Cyrus the Great for his sense of justies and for instituting what may rightly be called a charter of human rights. As a man, he was admirable and his countrymen lobed and termed him "father". 4. The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department feel privileged in bringing out a stamp to commemorate the 2500th Anniversary of the Charter of Cyrus the Great and join in the homage being paid by the nations of the world to the memory ot the Great King who was to the memory of the earliest expoenets of the principles of Human Rights. The stamp depicts the figure of a winged animal witha human face(which is now preserved in the Museum at Tehran ) found in the Central Palace at Persepolis, the imperial capital of ancient Persia. The background shows the stairway of the Central Palace with groups of Persian & Median nobles in conversation.
Philatelic Stamp Description	:	DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and shows a winged animal with a human face in Persepolis with the stairway of the Central Palace at Persepolis in the background.
Stamp Currency	:	P
Stamp Type	:	COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language	:	English
Stamp Overall Size	:	3.91 x 2.9
Postal Stamp Print Size	:	3.56 x 2.5 cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet	:	35
Stamp Perforations	:	13 x 13
Postal Stamp Shape	:	Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper	:	Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper
Indian Stamp Process	:	Photogravure
Number of stamps printed	:	30,00,000
Stamp Printed At	:	India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color	:	Suede Gray

Viswa Bharati University - 50th Anniversary

 

Stamp Issue Date	:	24/12/1971
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	0.20
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0653
Postal Stamp Name	:	VISWA BHARATI BUILDING & TAGORE
Stamp Information	:	Vishva-Bharati, the internationally famous seat of learning founded by Rabindranath Tagore, grew out of the Santiniketan Asrama founded in 1863 by Maharshi Devendranath Tagore, father of Rabindranath Tagore. In December 1901, an experimental school was started here by Rabindranath Tagore with only 5 students on the roll, mainly, as a result of his reaction against the joyless, mechanical system of education then prvailing in the country. The Government of the time was positively hostile to the institution and the school was never in a very flourishing condition financially. Nevertheless, the school was kept going mainly by efforts put in by a band of devotted workers who hadm gathered around Rabindranath. It was about the year 1912 Rabindranath was fortunate in securing the C. F. Andrews and W. W. Pearson who came to Shantiniketan to share his work. For a short time even Mahatma Gandhi had made Shantiniketan his home along with the students of his Phoenix School. However, in later years his other pre-occupation did not permithis being actively associated with Shantiniketan even though Santiniketan always remained dear to his heart. After his tour of Japan and America, in December 1918, Rabindranath Tagore began to actively pursue the idea of creaing an institution at Santiniketan which would be a true centre for all the different cultures of the East. He recieved the most warm and sincere cooperation from his collegues in this endeavour. The same 'Visva-Bharati' came into existence at about this time and its motto - Yatra Visvam Bhavatyekanidam " Where the world makes its home in a single nest" was chosen. From 1919 arrangements were made at Visva-Bharati for providing courses of higher studes in Buddhist Literature, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit, Pali, Prakrit etc., Art and Music occupied an important place in Rabindranath's system of education. The art section was fortunate to have the guidance of the renowned Nandalal Bose. The formal inauguration of Visva-Bharati took place in December 1921. As Rabindranath has put it; "Visva-Bharati represents India whereshe has her wealth of mind which is for all. Vishva-Bharati acknowledges India's obligations to offer to others the hospitality of her best culture and India's right to accept from others their best." Visva-Bharati soon became alive with various activities. A number of distinguished educationists and scholars flocked to this place from various countries abroad and from various parts of India. The practical idealism of Rabindranath also found shape here in institute of Rural Reconstruction which he established at sriniketan about a mile from Santiniketan. After death of its founder in 1941, Vishva-Bharati had a difficult period for some time. Abanindranath Tagore, the renowned artist, held the reins of the institution for some years, in spite of his failing health. After Abanindranath Tagore, Srimati Sarojini Naidu, the eminent poetess of India held the office of Acharya of the Visva-Bharati till her death. Shri Jawaharlal Nehru was then elected the Acharya of Visva-Bharati. Considering the importance of the institution, the Indian Parliament declared Vishva-Bharati in May 1951 to be an institution of national importance and it was incorporated as a residential university by an Act of the Parliament and Shri Jawaharlal Nehru became the first Chancellor of te University. The Vishva-Bharati is celebrating 50 years of its very useful service for the nation in 1971. The P&T Department feel privileged in commemorating the Golden Jubilee of the national institution by bringing out a special postage stamp to mark the occasion.
Philatelic Stamp Description	:	DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and depicts a portrait of Rabindranath Tagore on the left and the Visva-Bharati building on the right hand side of the portrait. The design of the stamp is adapted from the original prepared by Shri Charanjit Lal, Artist, P&T Directorate, New Delhi.
Stamp Currency	:	P
Stamp Type	:	COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language	:	English
Stamp Overall Size	:	4.06 x 2.2
Postal Stamp Print Size	:	3.80 X 2.0 cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet	:	50
Stamp Perforations	:	14 x 14,1/
Postal Stamp Shape	:	Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper	:	Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper
Indian Stamp Process	:	Photogravure
Number of stamps printed	:	30,00,000
Stamp Printed At	:	India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color	:	Burnt Sienna & J B A's Brown

Sri Ramana Maharshi 

 

Stamp Issue Date	:	14/04/1971
Postage Stamp Dinomination	:	0.20
Postal Stamp Serial Number	:	0637
Postal Stamp Name	:	SRI RAMANA MAHARISHI (MYSTIC)
Stamp Information	:	Sri Ramana Maharshi was born on the 30th December, 1879 at Tiruchuzhi near Madurai in Tamil Nadu. He was the second son of Sundaram (meaning beautiful in Sanskrit) Iyer and Alagu (meaning beautiful in Tamil) Ammal and was named Venkataraman. When he was seventeen years old, and was studying in HIgh School, he had an extraordinary experience. One day, for no apparent reason, when in perfect health, he felt the hand of death on him. His limbs stretched out, stiff as though rigor mortis had set in. And yet, he felt a strong surge of the current as "I' or Self. From then onwards, he was in the state of SAHAJA (natural) Samadhi in continuous abidance in the self. The awackening came in June, 1896 and two months thereafer. he left home for Arunachala (Thiruvannamalai). The parting letter ran thus: "I have, in search of my Father, and in obedience to his command, started from here. THIS is only embarking on a virtous enterprise. Therefore, none need grieve over THIS affair." The letter was unsigned with only a few dashes (....) because he had no sense of individual ego. He reached Thiruvannamalai on the 1st of September, 1896 and remained there till he left his mortal coils on the 14th April, 1950, making place considerd sacrd even more sacred by his living presence. It is said that if one were thousand-tounged, one cannot adequently describe the grace and ower which flowed from him. A great saga, Kavyakanta Ganapathi Muni, called him Bhagavan or God for he regarded him as the incarnation of Skanda or Subramania, and named him Ramana, the sweet one, and Maharshi, the great saga. The real Self, for which purpose all energies are concentrated in a resolve to find the answer to the question 'Who am I?'. The question may also take the form of 'Whence am I?', 'Who am I?' means 'What is the Truth of me?'. 'Whence am I>' means 'What is the source from which the sense of Self or 'I'ness emanates. No answer is to be attempted but the Quest itself enables the seeker to dive into his heart. The saga assures that this would automatically take the seeker's mind and merge it in the Heart, the source of Consciousness. This teaching has been described as the Great Yoga or the Maha Yoga because the method suggested is a direct one and does not require any particular belief and can, therefore, be practised by votaries of all religions. All craetion was the same in the Maharshi's eyes. Two incidents in his life would illustrate this. In May, 1922, when his mother was on her death-bed, he sat beside her, his right hand on her heart and his left hand on her head, quietening the mind so that death could be 'Mahasamadhi', absorption in the Self. In the other incident in 1948 he performed the same office for the Ashram cow, Lakshmi. From 1896 to 1950, for a span of over 50 years, the Maharshi has been spreading his message for inward peace and realization. The only other parallel to this is Gautama Buddha who lived for about 50 years after realization. The unqueness of the Maharshi was also that he was accessible to all at all times and all who turned to him considered themselves blessed. The famous French photographer Monosieur Cartier-Brisson related his experience of what happened on the night of the 14th April, 1950 when the Maharshi left his earthly body as follows: "I was in the open space in front of my house, when my friends drew my attention to the sky, where I saw a vividly luminous shooting-star with a luminous tail, unlike any shooting-star I had before seen, coming from the South, and noving slowly accross the sky, it reached the top of Arunachla and disappeared behind it." This was witnessed by several thousands for hundreds of miles around Thiruvannamalai at the time of the Mahanirvana. His message is set out teresly, in the Tamil poems 'Upadesa Saram' and 'Ulladu Narpadu' and in the works of the saint poet Muruganar. The Shrine of Grace of Sri Maharshi is situated in Sri Ramanasramam. Again and again, he impressed on all that real Maharshi was not the body which people saw but the inner being, the real Self and that his presence and grace can be felt by all those who turn to him in an earnest search for Truth. This holy land of India has given birth to several sages and saints belonging to all faiths from times immemorial. The Indian Posts and Telegraphs Department feels privileged to bring out a special commemorative postage stamp for Sri Ramana Maharshi as he is known to all his devotees.
Philatelic Stamp Description	:	DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and depicts a portrait of Sri Ramana Maharshi.
Stamp Currency	:	P
Stamp Type	:	COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language	:	English
Stamp Overall Size	:	3.34 x 2.8
Postal Stamp Print Size	:	2.987 x 2. cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet	:	42
Stamp Perforations	:	14 x 13,1/
Postal Stamp Shape	:	Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper	:	Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper
Indian Stamp Process	:	Photogravure
Number of stamps printed	:	30,00,000
Stamp Printed At	:	India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color	:	Brilliant Orange and Raw sienna                  C.V. Raman Stamp Issue Date : 21/11/1971 Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.20 Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0652 Postal Stamp Name : C.V. RAMAN (SCIENTIST) Stamp Information : Shri Chandrashekhar Venkat Raman was born at Tiruchirapalli, in Sout India, on 7th November, 1888. When he was 4 years old, his father accepted an appointment as a lecturer in {hysics in a college at Vishakhapatnam where Raman completed his High School education. In 1903, Raman joined the Presidency College, Madras, where he tok his B.A. and M.A. degrees, winning the highest distinctions. Even as a student at the Presidency College, young Raman took considerable interest in scientific research which was then almost unknown in India and had also published the results of his work in well-known International journals. It was very obvious even at that time, that he was cut out for a distinguished scientific career. In 1907, Shri Raman was appointed as Assistant Accountant General at Calcutta, having secured the first place in the competetive examination held by the Indian Finance Department. For a time, Shri Raman was associated with the P & T Department when he was Deputy Accountant-General for P & T at Calcutta. For nearly a decade Shri Raman, while serving in the Indian Finance Department, also found time to keep alive his interest in science and for contributing papers in different branches of Physics. When the Palit Chair of Physics was endowed at Calcutta University, Shri Raman accepted the appointment in 1917, even though he was financialy a loser in resigning from a lucrative appointment under the Government of India. The period from 1917 to 1932 was one of the intense scientific activity for Shri Raman. Many youngmen gathered around Shri Raman and many of his notable achievements in the realms of acoustics and optics pertained to this era. As a natural sequel to his studies on the scattering of light, Shri Raman discovered i early 1928 a new phenomenon, now named after his name as "Raman efect". In 1930, Shri Raman was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his discovery which found innumerable uses in unravelling the molecular structure of very many complicated compounds. Honours came to Shri Raman from far and wide. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of London in 1924 and was knighted in 1929. Shri Raman established the Indian Academy of Sciences with Headquarters at Bangalore in the year 1934 and continued his association with this Academy till his death. In 1933, Shri Raman was appointed as Deirector of the Indian Institute of Science at Bangalore. Since 1948 till his death he had been Director of the newly founded Raman Research Institute, Banglaore, to which he himself made substantial gifts of money, securities and the real estate. The Institute boasts of an impressive collection of minerals, diamonds, etc., which Shri Raman assidously collected from all over te world. The later day research of Shri Raman on the structure of diamonds and other gem stones was carried out at this institute. Besides being an outstanding genius in science, Shri Raman was also a god public speaker and his lectures always attracted popular attention. His very simple and unassuming manners, his delicate sense of humour and his love of music gathered around him a number of friends from different walks of life. Shri Ramn died after a brief illness in the early hours of the morning of Saturday, the 21st November, 1970. His mortal remains were cremated in the premises of the Institute which is founded and nursed assiduously in his later life. The P & T Department are privileged to honour this illustrious son of India who helped put India on the scientific map of the modern world. The commemorative stamp which is being brought out on the occasion of his first death anniversary shows a portrait of Shri C. V. Raman with a diamond in the foreground. The First day Cover being brought out on the occasion shows the Raman Research Institute at Bangalore. Philatelic Stamp Description : DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is horizontal and depicts a portrait of Dr. C. V. Raman. TERMS OF SALE Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE Stamp Language : English Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 x 2.9 Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.56 x 2.5 cms. Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 35 Stamp Perforations : 13 x 13 Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000 Stamp Printed At : India Security Press Indian Stamp's Color : Orange and Dark Brown

Deenabandhu C. F. Andrews

 

Stamp Issue Date : 12/02/1971  

Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.20 

Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0634  

Postal Stamp Name : DEENABANDHU C. F. ANDREWS (PHILOSOPHER) Stamp Information : Charles Freer Andrews, known affectionately to millions of Indians as 'Deenbandhu Andrews' was a true Christian in every sense of the term and a great humanitarian. He loved India with such intense love that though born an Englishman, he completely identified himself with the people of India and made their sorrows and aspirations his own. C. F. Andrews was born in New-castle-on Tyne on February 12, 1871. He grew in childhood in an atmosphere of prayer and meditation. The impact of Church sevice and the religious life of his parents helped his passionate devotion to religion, developed from the very early days of childhood. It was his father who installed him a thirst of knowledge. Andrews, a brilliant student of King Edward VI School stood first in Classical III at the age of fifteen. He could quote from memory long passeges of Greek and Latin verses. Andrews was selected for a Classical Scholarship at Pembroke College, Cambridge, in 1883, he took a first class in classical Tripos, and obtained a Fellowship in 1889 and came to Cambridge to teach Theology. On March 20, 1904, Andrews came to India as a Christian missionary and joined the staff of St. Stephen's College in Delhi. Soon he found his goal among the poor and oppressed people in India. He was shocked to find that untouchability and racial injustice were eating into vitals of Indian life. Andrews felt the agony of the suffering Indians and realised the urgent need for India's independence, the desire for which was already ripe among the political leaders of the country then. He strongly supported Dadabhai NAoroji, who voiced for the first time India's claim for Swaraj in 1906. Deenabandhu Andrews met Rabindra Nath Tagore in England in 1912 at the house of William Rothenstein. The beauty of Tagore's poetry moved him and opened up new vistas before his mind. His meeting with Rabindra Nath Tagore further strengthened his kinship with India and he came to look upon Tagore as his Gurudeva. The conditions of Indians in South Africa who were deprived of social rights on the grounds of racial discrimination agrieved him much. He was shocked to hear about the indentured labour system. When he went to Durban in January, 1914 with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, he met Mahatma Gandhi who was fightng for the rights of Indians. His sympathy for the Indians in Fuji was intensified when he read the book 'The Fiji of Today.' When Gokhale died, Andrews took up his unfinished work of redressing the distress of the Indians inFiji. He worked very hard to bring and end to the hartless system of indenture. and this was finally accomplished on January 1, 1920. He was indeed a great friend of poor Indians in Fiji, who called him 'Deenabandhu' meaning the friend of the humble, in 1917. This title has struck to him ever since. The distress of the poor Indian labourers led Andrews to work for their welfare. He was himself the leader of the newly formed labour union. He travelled untiringly from Assam to Ceylon to remove the suferings of Indian workers. He was alsoa friend of the railwaymen and was the peace-maker on the occasion of the railway strike in March, 1921. He was twice elected as President of the All India Trade Union Congress. For the next 20 years, Deenabandhu was everywhere. He was in the Punjab after terrible event of Jallianwala Bagh, asking forgiveness in person for wrongs and injustices committed by his own nation. He was many times in South Africa and Kenya, upholding the Indian honour and self-respect against insults and racial discrimination. Then many times, he was with gandhiji, and always in Gandhiji's times of special need - in sickness, during the great fasts of self-purification, as at the Round Table Conference in London. His temporary home in India was Santiniketan. He along with W. W. Pearson worked in Santiniketan to share the burdens of RAbindra Nath Tagore. He loved Santiniketan as it was to him an abode of boundless peace. Mahatma Gandhi and Gurudev Tagore were the closest associates of Andrews. He was 'Charlie' to both of them. He supported Gandhiji's campaign of non-violence. He loved and revered Gandhiji as he believed that he deliverance of the suffering people of India would come through him. He pleaded strongly for India's independence. Andrews devoted to the poorest and lowliest was prompted by love. He was a true Christian and a humanitarian. In every action he took he felt that he was inspired by the spirit of the Lord Jessus Christ. When Andrews wrote his own life story, he called it, "What I owe to Christ." He als\ways carried with him Christ's message of love. Charles Freer Andrews has been rightly called the Christ's Faithful Apostle. He died in Calcutta in 1940 in his 70th year. He was a real friend of India and made India his spiritual home. He ived and died for India. The Posts and Telegraphs Department feels privileged to pay its homage to this great friend of India by issuing a special commemorative stamp on this occasion of his birth centenary. 

Philatelic Stamp Description : DESCRIPTION OF DESIGN The design of the stamp is vertical and depicts a portrait of Deenbandhu C.F. Andrews. 

Stamp Currency : P  

Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE  

Stamp Language : English  

Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 x 2.9  

Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.56 x 2.5 cms. 

Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 35  

Stamp Perforations : 13 x 13 

Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal  

Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper 

Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure  

Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000  

Stamp Printed At : India Security Press 

Indian Stamp's Color : Mineral Red