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A portrait of Bishnu Ram Medhi in a white cap and dark spectacles, with a small Indian flag in the corner and his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Bishnu Ram Medhi
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 24 April 1989, a hundred and one years after his birth at Hajo, in Assam, in 1888. He took a science degree at Presidency College, Calcutta, and an M.Sc. at Dacca before turning to law. He joined the non-cooperation movement in 1921 and led the Congress in Assam from 1930 to 1938. He was Chief Minister of Assam from 1950 to 1958 and Governor of Madras from 1958 to 1964, and he died on 21 January 1981, leaving all he owned for public purposes.
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