About this stamp
Delhi’s Oldest Public Library
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 26 December 2016 on the Hardayal Municipal Heritage Public Library in Chandni Chowk, the oldest public library in Delhi, now named after the revolutionary Lala Har Dayal of Old Delhi. It began in 1862 as a reading club for the British: Englishmen gave the books they had read on the long sea voyage to India to the Institute Library of the Lawrence Institute, in the building, put up between 1861 and 1866, that is now Delhi’s Town Hall.
A New Building
Renamed the Delhi Public Library in 1902, it moved to a small building in Kaccha Bagh. After a bomb was thrown at the Viceroy, Lord Hardinge, in a procession on 23 December 1912, a committee raised funds for a new library building to mark his escape; the library moved into it in 1916 as the Hardinge Municipal Public Library, and was later renamed after Lala Har Dayal.
The stamp was designed by Alka Sharma; Security Printing Press, Hyderabad printed 301,590.
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