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A portrait of G. B. Pant in a white cap, with a white moustache, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Govind Ballabh Pant
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 7 March 1988. Born at Khoont in Almora district on 10 September 1887, he became a lawyer and a public figure in Kumaon. He was Premier of the United Provinces from 1937 to 1939, when he piloted the Tenancy Act and secured the release of the Kakori prisoners. He was imprisoned in 1940 and for nearly three years after 1942. At the meeting of the All India Congress Committee on 14 June 1947 he moved the historic resolution that led to independence.
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