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A portrait of Dr. N. S. Hardikar in a white cap and dark-rimmed spectacles, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Dr. N. S. Hardikar
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 13 May 1989. Born on 7 May 1889, he studied medicine at Calcutta and went on to America, where he worked with Lala Lajpat Rai on the journal Young India and led the Hindustan Association of America. Back in India he went to jail many times. His great cause was a disciplined and trained body of young volunteers, the Seva Dal, formed at the Kakinada session of the Congress on 27 December 1923. He also founded the Karnataka Health Institute at Ghataprabha, and sat in the Rajya Sabha from 1952 to 1962.
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