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Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (1894-1954), 1995 stamp

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Commemorative Stamp
18 February 1995

Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (1894-1954)

Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, independent India’s first Minister of Communications.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue February 18, 1995

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 600000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Chestnut

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1462 Stamp Number IN 1518 Yvert et Tellier IN 1246 Stanley Gibbons IN 1625

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Famous people, Headgear, Men, Optical Instruments, Politicians

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A portrait of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai in a white cap and round spectacles, printed in chestnut, with his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.

Rafi Ahmed Kidwai

India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 18 February 1995, the anniversary of the birth of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai (1894–1954), a politician, independence activist and socialist from Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh. He became Home Minister of Uttar Pradesh in 1946 and the first Minister of Communications in independent India’s first cabinet. After the general elections of 1951–52 Jawaharlal Nehru made him Minister of Food and Agriculture, at a time of food rationing across India. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.