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A smiling portrait of Kuladhor Chaliha in a white cap, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Kuladhor Chaliha
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 19 June 1988. Born at Sibsagar, he gave up the Assam Civil Service in protest at British policy, and campaigned against opium with Krishna Nath Sarma and later with C. F. Andrews. He joined the Congress after the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh and was the first President of the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee. He sat in the Constituent Assembly, was Speaker of the Assam Legislative Assembly from 1952 to 1957, and died on 19 January 1963.
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