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India Gate lit up at dusk, with the INDIA-89 emblem and the words “India Gate – New Delhi” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1.50 stamp.
India Gate
India Post issued four stamps on 17 October 1987, at 60 paise, ₹1.50, ₹5 and ₹6.50, showing historic monuments of Delhi, the second set leading up to INDIA-89. India Gate was at the heart of Sir Edwin Lutyens’s vision of New Delhi. The Duke of Connaught laid its foundation stone on 10 February 1921, and it was dedicated to 70,000 soldiers who died in the First World War. A flame burns at its base for the unknown soldiers.
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