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The papier-mâché mask of Ravana, the ten-headed demon king, worn in the Ramlila of Ramnagar, on a ₹2 stamp.
Ravana
India Post issued four stamps and a miniature sheet on 15 April 1974 on Indian masks. Three of them, the Sun, the Moon and Ravana, are papier-mâché masks worn in the Ramlila at Ramnagar near Banaras at Dussehra; the fourth, Narasimha, is the wooden mask of the Bhagavata Mela of South India. In the Ramlila, played over many evenings at Dussehra, Ravana is the demon king of Lanka whom Rama defeats. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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