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On the Stamp
A portrait of Laxmanrao Kirloskar in a white cap, with a cactus on one side and, on the other, an iron plough, an ear of wheat and a small factory building, his years 1869-1956 and his name in Hindi and English, on a 20 paise stamp.
Laxmanrao Kirloskar
India Post issued this stamp on 20 June 1969 for the birth centenary of Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar, founder of the Kirloskar Group. Born on 20 June 1869 at Gurlahosur in Belgaum district, he studied art in Bombay, but had to give up painting when he was found to be partly colour-blind, and became a teacher of mechanical drawing at the Victoria Jubilee Technical Institute. With his brother he opened a bicycle shop in Belgaum, and went on to make iron ploughs for Indian farmers, who at first feared that iron would poison the soil; it took him two years to sell the first. In 1910, with help from the ruler of Aundh, he set up his factory on barren land by Kundal Road station, now called Kirloskarwadi. He died on 26 September 1956.
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