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A drawing of Acharya Kripalani in grey, with a small Indian flag in the corner and his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Acharya Kripalani
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 11 November 1989, the anniversary of the birth of J. B. Kripalani at Hyderabad in Sind in 1888. He met Gandhi during the Champaran Satyagraha of 1917 and gave himself up to the national cause, and at the Gujarat Vidyapeeth he became known as Acharya. He was General Secretary of the Indian National Congress from 1934 to 1946. He left the Congress in 1951, and served in the Lok Sabha for many years as an independent voice. He died on 19 March 1982.
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