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A smiling portrait of Dr. S. K. Sinha in a white cap and spectacles, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Dr. Sri Krishna Sinha
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 4 February 1988. Born on 21 October 1887, he gave up the law in 1921 for the non-cooperation movement, and people came to call him Bihar Kesari, the lion of Bihar. He spent about eight years in prison in all, and was badly scalded during his arrest in the Salt Satyagraha at Garhpura. Gandhi named him the first satyagrahi of Bihar in 1940, and he was Chief Minister of Bihar from 1946 to 1961.
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