Bharti Bhawan Library, Allahabad

Bharti Bhawan, the Hindi and Urdu public library of Allahabad.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue August 30, 1995

Denomination Rs. 6

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 14

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit D. Banduni

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1470 Stamp Number IN 1529 Yvert et Tellier IN 1250 Stanley Gibbons IN 1632

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Books, Libraries

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About this stamp

On the Stamp

The arches of the library’s building and a round seal reading “Bharti Bhawan Library”, set on the red cover of a closed book, with the name in Hindi and English, on a ₹6 stamp.

Bharti Bhawan Library

India Post issued this ₹6 stamp on 30 August 1995. The Bharati Bhavan Library at Chowk, Allahabad, is a public library of Hindi and Urdu books set up in 1889; the Uttar Pradesh government names Bal Krishna Bhatt and Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya as its founders. Catalogues describe the stamp as a centenary issue. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia, on the Uttar Pradesh government’s library page and on the stamp itself.