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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 7 November 2013

75 Years of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

Seventy-five years of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, founded by K. M. Munshi in 1938.

Date of issue November 7, 2013
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity printed 410000
Perforation 13
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Wet Offset
Credit Sh. Sankha Samanta
Catalogue codes Michel IN 2791 Yvert et Tellier IN 2547 Stanley Gibbons IN 2973 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN103.2013

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Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 7 November 2013, 75 years to the day after K. M. Munshi founded the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan with Mahatma Gandhi’s support on 7 November 1938. The educational and cultural trust runs schools, the Bhavan’s Vidya Mandirs among them, and has centres across India and abroad.

India Post has no brochure for this issue online, so this text draws on Wikipedia.

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