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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 15 August 1987

Forty Years of Freedom

Doves and the flag, for forty years.

Date of issue August 15, 1987
Denomination 60 p
Quantity printed 10000000
Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik
Perforation comb 13 x 13½
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Photogravure
Catalogue codes Michel IN 1103 Stamp Number IN 1165 Yvert et Tellier IN 918 Stanley Gibbons IN 1252

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Green and red figures with white doves and a flag, with the words “Forty Years of Freedom 1947–1987” in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.

Forty Years of Freedom

India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 15 August 1987. India Post’s folder calls the fortieth anniversary a watershed, when a generation too young to have taken part in the struggle for freedom took the torch from the generation before it. The year was marked under a National Committee chaired by the Vice-President of India.

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