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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 7 November 1958

Bipin Chandra Pal (1858-1932)

A portrait of Bipin Chandra Pal.

Date of issue November 7, 1958
Denomination 15 nP
Quantity printed 10900000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 14 x 13ยฝ
Watermark Asokan Capital Multiple [Up]
Colours Dark grey green
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 300 Stamp Number IN 320 Yvert et Tellier IN 95 Stanley Gibbons IN 418

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A portrait of Bipin Chandra Pal, with his name and dates, on a 15 naye paise stamp.

Bipin Chandra Pal

India Post issued this stamp on 7 November 1958 for the birth centenary of Bipin Chandra Pal, one of the three leaders, โ€œLal, Bal and Palโ€, with Lala Lajpat Rai and Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who gave the freedom movement a new and fiery spirit in the years of the Swadeshi movement. Born on 7 November 1858 at Habiganj, in Sylhet, he was a powerful orator and journalist, who edited the Bande Mataram and New India, and preached boycott, swadeshi and national education after the partition of Bengal in 1905. He died in Calcutta on 20 May 1932.

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