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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 2 December 1974

19th International Dairy Congress, New Delhi

The dairy congress at New Delhi.

Date of issue December 2, 1974
Denomination 25 p
Quantity printed 3000000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13½
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 613 Stamp Number IN 644 Yvert et Tellier IN 415 Stanley Gibbons IN 751

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About this stamp

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Krishna as the young cowherd going out with the cows, from a pichhwai painting of Rajasthan, on a 25 paise stamp.

The Dairy Congress

India Post issued this stamp on 2 December 1974 for the 19th International Dairy Congress, held in New Delhi from 2 to 6 December 1974 under the International Dairy Federation, with the theme “Dairying as an instrument of social and economic change”. The design comes from a pichhwai, a painted cloth hanging of Rajasthan. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.

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