Aditya Vikram Birla

Aditya Vikram Birla, the industrialist who took Indian business abroad, from Thailand to Egypt.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue January 14, 2013

Denomination Rs. 5

Printer Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

Perforation 13¼

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Wet Offset

Credit Shri Kamleshwar Singh

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2699 Yvert et Tellier IN 2456 Stanley Gibbons IN 2919 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN011.2013

Themes Businessman, Commemoration, Famous people, Men, Optical Instruments

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Aditya Vikram Birla

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 14 January 2013 for the industrialist Aditya Vikram Birla (1943–1995). Born in Calcutta on 14 November 1943, the son of Basant Kumar and Sarala Birla and grandson of Ghanshyam Das Birla, he studied at St Xavier’s College, Calcutta and took a degree in chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He led his group into textiles, petrochemicals and telecommunications and was one of the first Indian industrialists to build plants abroad, in South-East Asia, the Philippines and Egypt. He died in 1995 at fifty-one, and his son Kumar Mangalam Birla took charge of the Aditya Birla Group.

India Post has no brochure for this issue online, so this text draws on Wikipedia.