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A domed gurdwara, with Guru Gobind Singh’s name in Hindi and English and his years 1666-1708, on a 15 paise stamp.
Guru Gobind Singh
India Post issued this stamp on 17 January 1967 for the 300th birth anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Guru of the Sikhs. Born at Patna in 1666, he became Guru at the age of nine, in 1675, after his father, Guru Tegh Bahadur, was executed in Delhi on Aurangzeb’s orders. On Baisakhi day in 1699, at Anandpur, he founded the Khalsa, the order of baptised Sikhs, giving its men the name Singh and its women Kaur. A poet and a warrior, he led his followers through years of war against the Mughal governors, in which all four of his sons were killed. Before his death at Nanded in 1708, stabbed by assassins sent from Sirhind, he declared that the scripture, the Guru Granth Sahib, would be the Guru after him.
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