About this stamp
Fifty Years of Haryana
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 1 November 2016 for the 50th anniversary of Haryana, which became a separate state of the Indian Union on 1 November 1966. An inscription of Vikram Samvat 1384 calls it a land “akin to heaven on earth”. It was the home of the Bharatas, after whom India is named; here the Vedas and Upanishads were composed on the banks of the Saraswati and Krishna gave the message of the Bhagavad Gita at Kurukshetra. Banawali and Rakhigarhi were centres of the Indus Valley Civilisation more than 5,000 years ago.
Land of Battles
Harshavardhana made Thanesar his capital in the seventh century, and Prithviraj Chauhan built forts at Taraori and Hansi. Three battles at Panipat changed India’s history: Babur’s defeat of Ibrahim Lodi in 1526, Akbar’s of Hemu in 1556, and Ahmad Shah Abdali’s of the Marathas in 1761.
The stamp was designed by Alka Sharma; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 510,220.
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