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Jawaharlal Nehru in his white cap above a great crowd of people, with his signature and his years 1889-1964, on a 15 paise stamp.
Jawaharlal Nehru
India Post issued this stamp on 12 June 1964 in mourning for Jawaharlal Nehru, India’s first Prime Minister, who had died in New Delhi on 27 May 1964. Twenty million were printed. Born at Allahabad in 1889 and educated at Harrow and Cambridge, Nehru joined Gandhi’s movement after the Jallianwala Bagh massacre of 1919, spent nearly ten years in British prisons, and wrote there his Autobiography, Glimpses of World History and The Discovery of India. Prime Minister from 1947 until his death, he built the institutions of the young republic, set it on the path of planned economic development, science and industry, and led the non-aligned nations in the years of the Cold War. In his will he asked that a handful of his ashes be scattered over the fields where the peasants of India toil.
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