About this stamp
The First College of Vidarbha
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 17 September 2018 on Hislop College, Nagpur. It grew from a boys’ school opened in 1846 at Shukrawara, old Nagpur, by the young Scottish missionary Stephen Hislop; the college was founded in 1883 and was the first institution of higher education in the Vidarbha region. It celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2009.
The College Today
Run by the Hislop Education Society under the Church of North India, it has more than 5,000 students, 21 departments, 12 postgraduate courses and nine research centres recognised by Rashtrasant Tukadoji Maharaj Nagpur University. In 2016 NAAC re-accredited it with an A grade, and the UGC gave it a heritage status grant. Its eight-acre campus centres on a quadrangle with a lawn and basketball court.
On the Stamp
A portrait beside the college building. It was designed by Vinita Sinha, with the cancellation by Alka Sharma; 600,700 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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