15th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Eleanor Roosevelt at the charkha.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue December 10, 1963

Denomination 15 nP

Quantity printed 2500000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½ x 13

Watermark Asokan Capital Multiple [Up]

Colours Reddish purple

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 364 Stamp Number IN 379 Yvert et Tellier IN 164 Stanley Gibbons IN 478

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Famous people, Human Rights, People, Women

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On the Stamp

Eleanor Roosevelt seated at a charkha, the spinning wheel, with the words “Universal Declaration of Human Rights” and its 15th anniversary, on a 15 naye paise stamp.

Fifteen Years of Human Rights

India Post issued this stamp on 10 December 1963, Human Rights Day, for the 15th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948. It shows Eleanor Roosevelt, who chaired the commission that drafted the Declaration and had died in November 1962, at a spinning wheel during her visit to India in 1952; the charkha recalls Gandhi’s struggle for India’s freedom and dignity. In a message for the issue, Prime Minister Nehru called for the struggle to go on until all humanity was free from fear and want.