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On the Stamp
A battle scene at Lucknow, with sepoys and horsemen fighting before a palace, on the ₹5 stamp.
The First War of Independence
India Post issued two stamps, ₹5 and ₹15, and a ₹20 miniature sheet on 9 August 2007, 150 years after the uprising of 1857 against the rule of the East India Company. It began on 10 May 1857 as a mutiny of sepoys at Meerut and spread across the upper Gangetic plain and central India, until the rebels’ defeat at Gwalior on 20 June 1858. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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