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A portrait of Asaf Ali in a cap and spectacles, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Asaf Ali
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 11 May 1989, the anniversary of his birth in 1888. A barrister trained in London, he gave up his practice for the non-cooperation movement, and his marriage to Aruna Ganguly in 1928 drew wide notice. He was held at Ahmednagar Fort with Nehru after the Quit India resolution of 1942. As Railway Minister in the Interim Government of 1946 he ended the separate “Hindu Pani” and “Muslim Pani” on station platforms. He went on to be India’s first Ambassador to the United States and Governor of Orissa, and died in Switzerland on 2 April 1953.
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