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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 8 January 2013

Centenary of the Ghadar Party

A hundred years of the Ghadar Party, founded in 1913 by Indians in North America to overthrow British rule.

Date of issue January 8, 2013
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity printed 410000
Printer India Security Press, Nashik
Perforation 13 x 13¼
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Wet Offset
Credit Smt. Alka Sharma
Catalogue codes Michel IN 2691 Yvert et Tellier IN 2449 Stanley Gibbons IN 2911 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN003.2013

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About this stamp

The Ghadar Party

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 8 January 2013 for the centenary of the Ghadar Party, an international movement of expatriate Indians founded to overthrow British rule in India. It was created by revolutionaries living and working on the west coast of the United States and Canada, and its founding is dated to a meeting at Astoria, Oregon, on 15 July 1913; “Ghadar” means revolt.

The movement spread to India and to Indian communities around the world. Many of its leaders, among them Sohan Singh Bhakna, later carried their struggle into the Babbar Akali movement in Punjab after the First World War.

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