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Xix Internation Dairy Congress 1974
Maithili Sharan Gupt 1886-1964
| Stamp Issue Date | : | 03/07/1974 |
| Postage Stamp Dinomination | : | 0.25 |
| Postal Stamp Serial Number | : | 0713 |
| Postal Stamp Name | : | MAITHILISARAN GUPTA (POET) |
| Stamp Information | : | Maithili Sharan Gupta, an eminent Hindi poet, was popularly known as Rashtrakavi. Author of the great epic 'Saket', Maithili Sharan Gupta started writing in the beginning of the present century under the spiring guidance of the doyen of Hindi literature, Pandit Mahavir Prasad Dwivedi. His great contribution to Hindi literature was that he moulded the modern Hindi language- Khari Boli- a fit vehicle for literary expression. Modrn Hindi poetry owes him a great debt in that he paved the way for its growth and development and laid the foundation for its later achievements. Born on August 3, 1886, at Chiragaon, near Jhansi, Maithili Sharan Gupta had to give up schooling in his early youth owing to impecunious family situation. However, he continued his studies at home and became thoroughly familiar with the vast treasure-house of Sanskrit literature. He acquired a sound knowledge of Bengali and a few other Indian languages and was one of the earliest translators of Bengali poetry into Hindi. Thus, he gave Hindi literature a breadth of vision not known before. Maithili Sharan's first great contribution to Hindi literature was 'Bharat Bharti'. published in 1912, which sang the glories of India. He wrote ceaselessely and produced nearly 50 books in his 60 years of literary creativity. Though his long narrative poems, he re-interpreted the glory that was India in contemporary context. Of his poetical works, the best known is 'Saket'. which relates the story of Ramayana in the contemporary situation. A man of striking simplicity, sincerity and piety, and generous almost to a fault, Maithili Sharan Gupta was a great patriot. He served the National Freedom Movement with faith and devotion. When India became a Republic, he was nominated to the Rajya Sabha and was awarded Padma Bhushan in 1954. With the pasing away of Maithili Sharan Gupta on December 12, 1964, Hindi literature has lost one of its most dedicated students and servants. |
| Philatelic Stamp Description | : | The stamp is vertical and depicts the portrait of the personality. |
| Stamp Currency | : | P |
| Stamp Type | : | COMMEMORATIVE |
| Stamp Language | : | English |
| Stamp Overall Size | : | 3.91 X 2.90 cms |
| 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 |
25th Anniversary of UNICEF in India
Date of Issue : 14 November 1974
Occasion : 25th Anniversary of UNICEF in India
Description " Indian Dancers " by Amita Shah
Chhatrapathi Shivaji ( Maratha Ruler ) - 300th Anniversary of Coronation
Stamp Issue Date : 02/06/1974
Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.25
Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0712
Postal Stamp Name : CHHATRAPATI SHIVAJI
Stamp Information : Shivaji stands out in Indian history as a great patriot, an interpid soldier and an enlightened ruler. His name has been a source of inspiration to all freedom fighters in this country. His brave and dairing deeds have been narrated in countless stories and songs in several Indian languages. Shivaji was born in April 1627 at Shivneri, a hill fort in the district of Poona. His father Shahaji Bhosale was a daughty warior and had a small landed estate around Poona where young SHivaji grew up. His mother, Jijabai, was a woman of austere and religious temprament. Her constsnt companionship, advice and reading of Hindu scriptures instilled in young Shivaji's mind a burning hared for wrong and injustice, a pride in the past glory of his country and an intense desire to carve out an independent kingdom. By darring military exploits, Shivaji captured forts, built others and brought the surrounding country under his control. He defeated the Adil Shahi forces sent out to destroy him in conflict with the mighty Moghul Empire. Within a short span of a few years he was the master of an extrensive territory. The auspicious day of 2nd June 1674 Shivaji had his coronation with respondant seremony at Raigad. In the remaining six years of his life, he overwhelmed his foes and gave much thought to the organisation of his administration. He died on 4th April, 1680. Shivaji was not only a military conqueror but also a great ruler. Aided by his council of eight Ministers- Ashtapradhan- he gave his kingdom an efficient administration, a disciplined army and a public life based on justice, equity and equality. The famous Indian Historian, Jadunath Sarlar, has this to say of Shivaji: "His reign brought peace and order to his country assured the protection of women's honour and the religion of all sects without distinction, extended the royal patronage to the truly pious men of all creeds and presented equal opportunities to all his subjects by opening the public service to talent irrespective of caste or creed. This was the ideal policy for a State with a composite population like India". The P & T De[partment deems it a privilege to join the nation in paying tribute to the memory of this great son of India by issuing a comemorative stamp on the occasio of the Tricentenary of his coronation.
Philatelic Stamp Description : The design of the stamp is vertical and depicts the portrait of the Chhatrapati Shri Shivaji Maharaj.
Stamp Currency : P
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms
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 coated paper
Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure
Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000
Stamp Printed At : India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour
Kamala Nehru - Commemoration
Stamp Issue Date : 01/08/1974
Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.25
Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0719
Postal Stamp Name : KAMALA NEHRU DES:CHARANJIT LAL
Stamp Information : The seventy-fifth birth anniversary of Kamala Nehru is a befitting occasion to recall the valuable contribution of a brave and sensitive fighter for India fredom. Born on August 1, 1899, she had only a brief span of 36 years and died eleven years before India atained independence. Despite ill-health- which dogged her from the time when she was in her twenties until she died on February 28, 1936- Kamala Nehru played a heroic role which left an indelible imprint on the nationalist movement. Daughter of Pandit Jawaharmul, a businessman of Delhi, Kamala was married at the age of seventen on February 8, 1916, the Vasant Panchami day, to Jawaharlal Nehru, then a young barrister in Allahabad. Her father-in-law, Motilal Nehru, was in the forefront of the Allahabad Bar, the Nehrus were among the most fashionable and forward-loking families in the country, and Jawaharlal was one of the most eligible young men. Kamal could well have looked forward to a life of ease and comfort. But this was not to be. Within three years of marriage Jawaharlal came under the spell of Mahatma Gandhi and plunged into the non-co-operationmovement which brought about a metamorphosis in the life-style of the family. Jawaharlal became whollyabsorbed in te movement, and as he wrote later in his autobiography "almost forgot my family, my wife, my daughter." Henceforth, he practically spent his time addressing public meetings or travellin in trains if he was not in prison. Recurrent imprisonment or the immense of imprisonment of her husband could not but be a sore trial for Kamal especialy when her own health had begun to give way. However, the tensions and trials she had to undergo brought out the best in her. The new austerity which the Mahatma inspired in the Nehru household evoked a ready response in her. The freedom sruggle also gave scope to the qualities which she possessed in an abudant measure- sincerity, courage, determination and the spirit of self-sacrifice. At first her great contribution was the moral support and encouragement she gave to her husband in his head-on colision with imperialism. Later, oblivious of her own delicate health, she threw herself into the civil disobedience campaign in the wake of the Mahatma's historic Dandi March in 1930. Kamala was in the van of the Salt Satyagraha in Allahabad, picketing foreign cloth and liquor shops, leading processions and demonstrations, addressing metings and facing lathi charges by the police. She served as a mumber of U.p. Congress Committee. She even briefly became a member of Congress Working Committe when that body was declared unlawful and arrested en bloc and substitute members was appointed. She was spared arrest at that juncture but provoked the authorities by reading out at a public meting the very spech of making which her husband was convicted. On January 1, 1931, she was arrested and lodged in Lucknow Central Jail. Asked by a pressman for a message on her arrest she said,"I am happy beyond measure and proud to folow in the footsteps of my husband. I hope people will keep the flag flying." After Kamala Nehru's arrest, when practically all Congress leaders were in jail, a "resolution of remembbrance" was passed on January 26, 1931, and read at thousands of meetings all over India. It reffered to Indian women's heroic role in freedom struggle. In the words of Jawaharlal Nehru: "In this upheaval Kamala played a brave and notable part....." The life of Kamala Nehru was an epitome of the idealism, courage and sacrifice which the struggle for political liberation, under the leadership of Mahatma Gandh, evoked among Indian womanhood. Those were the days when nationalist India had dared to chalenge the might of British Empire, when victory seemed distant, if not uncertain. Kamala Nehru had in her all too short life more than her share of physical suffering and nervous strain. But she exhibited remarkable blend of outward getleness and a rock-like inner strength. She was doubtless inspired by the teachings of Gandhi and by the example of her husband, but she had a mind and a will of her own. It is significant thatshe did not conferm to the dictates of the traditional culture in which she had grown up as a child, nor to the anglicised pattern of her husband's home in pre-Gandhian days. She acquired an independent and refreshingly modern outlook onlife. She was free from the prejudices of caste and creed and the lifeless rituals of formalistic religion. She was a staunch champion of secularism, but she had also a deep spiritual streak which probably gave her the remarkable inner strength and serenity which impressed those who came in contact with her. A devoted wife and mother, Kamala Nehru was also an ardent feminist. Some of the questions which the "Women's liberation" movements in different parts of the world are debating today- the sharing of household chores and equality of sexes- find mention in her letters. She felt deeply in injustice of unequal treatment meted out to Indian women who were kept in purdah, denied education and economic independence. She was profoundly influenced by the Bhagwad Gita and by the lives and teachings of Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Swami Vivekanand. She was also drawn to Ma Anandmayeji. Full of compasion, her heart went out in sympathy to the poor and down-trodden. Regardless of her own falling health, she worked hard to kep running the charitable hospital in Swaraj Bhawan in Allahabad. Dr. B.C. Ray, a friend as well as the physician of the Nehru family, recaled that Kamala Nehru had "a frail constitution but an indomitable spirit. Brought up in luxury and comfort, she aced with cheerfulness the difficulties and discomforts of a public worker in India and she identified herself with the humblest among the sufferers in this land." Perhaps the best tribute to Kamala Nehru was paid by Mahatma Gandhi, who said, :I have not known a truer, braver and more-god-fearing woman>" The P & T Department fels honoured to bring out a commemorative postage stamp on the ocasion of the 75th Birth Anniversary of this heroic woman. Philatelic Stamp Description : The design of the stamp is in diamond shape and depicts the portrait of Kamala Nehru.
Stamp Currency : P
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Stamp Overall Size : 4.06 X 4.06 cms
Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.70 x 2.0 cms.
Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 35
Stamp Perforations : 14,1/2x14
Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal
Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked P.G. Matt coated paper
Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure
Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000
Stamp Printed At : India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour
World Population Year
President V.V.Giri - Retirement
Professor Nicholas Roerich
Stamp Issue Date : 09/10/1974
Postage Stamp Dinomination : 1.00
Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0746
Postal Stamp Name : NICHOLAUS ROERICH BY HENRY DROPSY
Stamp Information : 'In Beauty we are united Through Beauty we pray With Beauty we conquer'. Thus was the phiolosophy of the many-sided genius, Profesor Nicholas Roerich, whose varied and prolific creative activities earned him an international reputation in a nuber of fields. A master-artist, scientist, educator, philosopher, explorer, Roeric was born in St. Petersburg, Russia on 9th October, 1874, and was educated at the University of St. Petersburg, where he attended several faculties simultaneously. Later, he continued his studies of Art abroad. After a brilliant academic career abroad, he came to India i 1924, where he led a 5 year artistic scientific expedition through the mountainous regions of Kulu valley in the Himalayas where he lived the rest of his life. Roaerich achieved recognition and fame very early in life and was entrusted with some very important assignments when he was quite young. His creative output as an artist was enormous; he painted some 7000 paintings besides many murals and designed outstanding msaics for churches and public buildings in Rusia. He was also a prolific writer and wrote many books and innumerable articles, essay on Art, Culture, Archaeology and Philosophic subjects. His published works comprise some 30 volums, which include his Poems and Plays. A great cultural leader and worker for world peace, Roerich stresed that beauty and knowledge would unite humanity. He was the founder and inspirer of cultural institutions and societies inmany countries. He worked for peace and better international understanding and one of his outstanding contributions to World Peace was his International Pact for the protection of Art Treasures and Educational and Scientific Institutions in times of war and civil commotions. His humanitarian work was greatly assisted by his wife, Helena and other two sons, George- a scientist and distinguished orientalist- and Svetoslav, the gifted artist. Prof. Roaerich travelled all over the world and led extensive expeditions to Central Aisa, Mongolia and Tibet. He organised the ethological, linguistic as well as botanical and zoological survey of some of the Western Himalayan REgions. He was honoured by many countries and was Fellow of various academies and numerous educational, scientific and cultural bodies throughout the world. His paintings are the prized possession of leading Museums and collection all over the globe. A freind of Nehru, Radhakrishnan and Tagore, Roeich loved India and its people as he loved his own. He enshrined that love and the spirit of India in his many glorious paintings of the Himalayas, which earned him the reputation, "Master of the Montains." Roerich died in Naggar, Kulu on 13th December, 1947. The Psts and Telegraphs Department deems it a privilege to commemorate the birth centenary of Prof. Roerich by the issue of a postage stamp.
Philatelic Stamp Description : A medallion of Nicholas Roerich done by Henry Dropsy has been adopted as the motif of the stamp.
Stamp Currency : R
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms
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 : Yellow Green
2500th Anniv. of Bhagwa Mahavira's attainment of Nirvava
Cat, Des:Rajesh Bhatia
Stamp Issue Date : 14/11/1974
Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.25
Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0748
Postal Stamp Name : CAT, DES:RAJESH BHATIA
Stamp Information : Children's Day is celebrated throughout the country with great enthusiasm and has helped to focus attention on the problems of child welfare. The INdian Posts & Telegraphs Department has been issuing special postage stamps on Children's Day on November 14. In 1970 as well as last year stamps were brought out depictiing children's paintings as their motifs. This time we have not only depicted the child's painting but the entire designing of the stamp and first day cover has ben done by the children. The stamp design by Rajesh Bhatia depicts "a cat." Tulu Verma has done the First Day Cover design which shows "a lion." Both the child artists are from New Delhi.
Stamp Currency : P
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms
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 paper
Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure
Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000
Stamp Printed At : India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour
Terretorial Army - 25th Anniversary
Guglielmo Marconi ( Radio Pioneer ) - Birth Centenary
Max Mueller was born at Dessau in Germany in 1823, the only son of Wilhelm Mueller, a distinguished poet, some of whose poems were set to music by Franz Schubert. Max Mueller attended the gramer school in his native town till 1836. He than entered the University of Leipzig in 1841 with the intention of studying Latin and Grek. However studying these languages proved somewhat tiring to him, and when he heard of the foundation of a Chair in Sanskrit, he took to the study of the language with deep devotion and started learning that language. Taking has decorate in philosophy in 1943, Max Mueller proceeded to the University of Berlin in 1844 to continue his work on Sanskrit and philosophy under Franz Bopp, the founder of the Science of Comparative Philosophy, and under Friendrich von Schelling, the eminent philosopher.
In 1846, Mueller went to England, with an introduction to the Prussian Minister in London, Baroon Bunsen, who later became his well-wisher, to copy and collate manuscripts in Sanskrit. The greatest difficulty he faced was money for the publication of the Rig-Veda which he in a meanwhile, had begun to translate. This difficulty was, however, overcome with the help of Baron Bunsen and H.H. Wilson, the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford who recommended him to East India Company for financial support. As his Rig-Veda was being printed at the University Press, he migrated to Oxford in 1848 and spent the rest of his life there. The first volume of Max Mueller's edition was appeared in 1849, the sixth and the last in 1874. This printed Rig-Veda caused great enthusiasm in India. With the translation of the Rig-Veda, and innumerable publications on Indian religion and literature, Max Mueller ushered in renaissance of India's culture and was its greatest interpreter to the Western world. Later it was specially the Vedanta which attracted him so much that Swami Vivekananda said for him: "Max Mueller is a Vedantist of Vedantists". He has, indeed, caught the real soul of the melody of the Vedanta." Gradually, Mueller's reputation spread in India. His book 'India: What it can teach us' has a special place among his publications. It contains a series of lectures given by Mueller at the University of Cambridge. When reading these books, the reader will find it difficult to believe that Max Mueller was never in India. Max Mueller did not only delve into India's past but also took the liveliest interest in her political reawakening. He regularly corresponded with prominent Indians who prepared the path for India's freedom. When he died in 1900, India had indeed lost a great friend, on whom she rightly bestowed the title "Moksha Mula."
The Posts and Telegraphs Department is privileged to bring out a stamp in honor of Max Mueller
Source: Press Information Bureau, Government of India, 1974
Kandukuri Veerasalingam ( Social Reformer )
Stamp Issue Date : 15/07/1974
Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.25
Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0716
Postal Stamp Name : KANDUKURI VEERESALINGAM
Stamp Information : Kadukuri Veeresalingam was a born crusader against social evils. As a social reformer, he stired public consience for the improvement of Women's status, uplift of Harijans and the removal of various social taboos. A man of action and firm determination he heralded a social revolution in Andhra. He is to Andhra what Ram Mohan Roy is to India in a larger sense. Born on April 16, 1848 Veeeresalingam lost his father at a tender age and was brought up by his uncle. Even as a pupil in the primary school, he opposed meaningless customs and religious beliefs. Later in life he was a school teacher. He fought valiantly against orthodoxy and waged a long-drawn battle for the rights of women to education, mariage of widows and the abolition of child marriage. He campaigned agaist the caste system and encouraged inter-caste mariages. He waged a battle against untouchability. He took up the case of the poor and the downtrodden and fought corrruption in administration. Veeresalngam was also a man of great erudition. He wrote playlets and essays in single Telugu, dealing with social evils. He strted Telugu journalists, and through teir pages advocated various causes for social reform. He breathed his last on May 27, 1919. The Posts and Telegraphs Department is privileged to issue a stamp in honour of this great social reformer and scholar.
Philatelic Stamp Description : The stamp is vertical and depicts the portrait of the personality.
Stamp Currency : P
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms
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 : 20,00,000
Stamp Printed At : India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color : Burnt Sienna
Tipu Sultan
Stamp Issue Date : 15/07/1974
Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.50
Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0717
Postal Stamp Name : TIPU SULTAN (PATRIOT)
Stamp Information : Tipu Sultan has a distinct place in our history as a defender of the country's freedom. He was the only ruler of his period who had a clear vision of the ultimate aim of British policy. He fought valiantly for maintaining his independence and preferred death to dishonour. Born on May 20, 1750, he was named Tipu after Saint TipuMastan Aulia. From the early age of 15, he was sent by his father, Haidar Ali of Mysore, on military campaigns against te English, the Nizam and the Marathas, with whom Haidar Ali was constantly at war. Tipu displayed great dash and courage in these campaigns. He defeated the English in several battles and was able to make an honourable peace with them trough the Treaty of Mangalore in 1784. Still he was not allowed to rest in peace. The English succeeded in winning over the Nizam and the Marathas against him. In 1790, the formed an aliance and invaded Tipu's kingdom. He fought bravely but was overwhelmed. Consequently, he lost half of his kingdom. This greatly wealened him and paved the way for his final overthrow and death in 1799. As a ruler Tipu believed in the Indian tradition that the people constituted " a unique trust held for God the real Master". He had a high sense of duty to his office. An able administrator he ushered in prosperity in his kingdom by economic management of material resources. He initiated measures for the development of commerce and for checking frauds and other malpractices. He pioneered road building in Malabar. He imposed restrictions on lavish expenditure on marriages and festivals and abolished the custom of human sacrifice. Tipu was a patron of art and learning. His library consisted of a large number of manuscripts in various languages. His currency was adorned with the finest calligraphic designs. He was a patron of music and dancing and had a great love for architecture. He was liberal in his views and catholic and broadminded in his outlook. Te Posts and Telegraphs Department deems it a privilege to bring out a stamp in the memory of this great son of India.
Philatelic Stamp Description : The stamp is vertical and depicts the portrait of the personality.
Stamp Currency : P
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms
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 : 20,00,000
Stamp Printed At : India Security Press
Indian Stamp's Color : Plum
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