Babu Jagjivan Ram

A portrait of the longest-serving Union minister.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue April 5, 1991

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 600000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Brown | Yellow

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1296 Stamp Number IN 1353 Yvert et Tellier IN 1094 Stanley Gibbons IN 1446

Themes Commemoration, Famous people, Headgear, Men, Optical Instruments, Politicians

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A portrait of Babu Jagjivan Ram in spectacles and a white cap, before shelves of books, with his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.

Babu Jagjivan Ram

India Post issued this ₹1 stamp on 5 April 1991, the anniversary of his birth in 1908. Known as Babuji, he helped found the All India Depressed Classes League in 1935 and went on to serve as a Union minister for over thirty years, longer than anyone else. He was Defence Minister during the war of 1971 and Deputy Prime Minister in 1979. He died on 6 July 1986. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.