Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher

A portrait of Bombay State’s first Chief Minister.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue March 8, 1989

Denomination 60 p

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1211 Stamp Number IN 1269 Yvert et Tellier IN 1013A Stanley Gibbons IN 1346

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

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A portrait of B. G. Kher in a white cap and round spectacles, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.

B. G. Kher

India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 8 March 1989. Balasaheb Gangadhar Kher was born at Ratnagiri on 24 August 1888, went to school in Pune at the suggestion of G. K. Gokhale, and took his degree at Wilson College, Bombay, in 1908, coming first in Sanskrit. A lawyer and Congress leader, he was Prime Minister of Bombay in 1937–39 and 1946–47, then the first Chief Minister of Bombay State, from 1947 to 1952. He received the Padma Vibhushan in 1954.