19th International Dairy Congress, New Delhi

The dairy congress at New Delhi.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue December 2, 1974

Denomination 25 p

Quantity printed 3000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 613 Stamp Number IN 644 Yvert et Tellier IN 415 Stanley Gibbons IN 751

Themes Animals (Fauna), Art, Bulls and Cows, Conferences, Gods and goddesses, Mammals

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

Krishna as the young cowherd going out with the cows, from a pichhwai painting of Rajasthan, on a 25 paise stamp.

The Dairy Congress

India Post issued this stamp on 2 December 1974 for the 19th International Dairy Congress, held in New Delhi from 2 to 6 December 1974 under the International Dairy Federation, with the theme “Dairying as an instrument of social and economic change”. The design comes from a pichhwai, a painted cloth hanging of Rajasthan. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.