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A smiling colour portrait of Indira Gandhi with her head covered, with the words “Indira Gandhi: Priyadarshini” and the dates 1917–1984 in Hindi and English, on a ₹3 stamp.
Priyadarshini
India Post issued this ₹3 stamp on 19 November 1985, the anniversary of her birth at Allahabad in 1917. She was named Indira Priyadarshini, “she who one loves to look upon”. As a child she founded the Vanar Sena to help the Congress, and she learned history from her father’s letters from prison. She married Feroze Gandhi on 26 March 1942 and became Prime Minister in January 1966.
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