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A portrait of Dr. P. Subbarayan in spectacles, printed in orange, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Dr. P. Subbarayan
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 30 September 1989. Born on 11 September 1889 into one of the largest landowning families of Tamil Nadu, he trained as a barrister and took a doctorate in law at Dublin. He became Premier of the Madras Presidency in 1926, joined the Congress in 1933 and was a minister in Rajaji’s cabinet of 1937. Imprisoned with his wife in 1940, he later introduced the Zamindari Abolition Act as a minister in Madras, sat in the Constituent Assembly, and went as Ambassador to Indonesia in 1949.
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