About this stamp
On the Stamp
The papier-mâché mask of the Sun worn in the Ramlila of Ramnagar, on a 20 paise stamp.
The Sun
India Post issued four stamps and a miniature sheet on 15 April 1974 on Indian masks. Three of them, the Sun, the Moon and Ravana, are papier-mâché masks worn in the Ramlila at Ramnagar near Banaras at Dussehra; the fourth, Narasimha, is the wooden mask of the Bhagavata Mela of South India. In India masks have long served ritual and drama alike, to show gods, heroes and demons in plays drawn from the Ramayana, the Mahabharata and the Puranas. This text draws on India Post’s folder for the issue.
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