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On the Stamp
The right half of a Kohbar Ghar mural by Ganga Devi: lotus roundels, fish and a sun, with an elephant and a woman at the foot, on the ₹10 stamp.
Madhubani Paintings
India Post issued five stamps of Madhubani–Mithila paintings on 15 October 2000. Madhubani art is a style of painting of the Mithila region of India and Nepal, named after the Madhubani district of Bihar, where it began; it was traditionally practised by women, painting with fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens and matchsticks in natural dyes and pigments. Two of the stamps, at ₹5 and ₹10, are printed together as a pair and make up one painting, a Kohbar Ghar mural by Ganga Devi. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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