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The head of a white tiger with pale stripes and blue eyes, with the words “White Tiger – Rewa” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
The White Tiger of Rewa
India Post issued two stamps on 29 November 1987, ₹1 and ₹5, on one rare and one endangered member of the cat family. The white tigers in captivity began with a white cub caught by the Maharaja of Rewa in Sidhi district in 1951. Named Mohan, he was kept at Govindgarh Fort, and with selective breeding he became the ancestor of the captive white tigers of the next three decades. In 1981 five more were born at Nandankanan in Orissa, and India had 36 white tigers in seven zoos.
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