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On the Stamp
Bismillah Khan on a definitive stamp of the Creators of India series. Ustad Bismillah Khan (1916–2006) of Varanasi made the shehnai a concert instrument; he played at the Red Fort on the eve of independence in 1947 and received the Bharat Ratna in 2001.
Creators of India
This definitive belongs to the series of portraits of the people who shaped modern India that India Post began in 2015, which catalogues call Creators of India. No India Post brochure is published for definitive stamps; this text draws on Wikipedia.
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