About this stamp
On the Stamp
Gandhi as a young lawyer in South Africa, in a suit and high collar, with a column of marchers behind him. The saying reads “हिंसा दुर्बल का शस्त्र है, अहिंसा सबल का”: violence is the weapon of the weak, non-violence that of the strong.
The brochure recalls the insults that shaped him: being turned out of the office of Sir Charles Ollivant, the Political Agent in Kathiawar; being asked to remove his turban in a Durban court; and the journey from Durban to Pretoria. After reading a book by Tolstoy he resolved the conflict in his mind against violence, and these experiences led to Satyagraha, which he used first in South Africa and then in India.
The First Circular Stamps of Independent India
India Post issued seven stamps on 2 October 2018 to mark the start of the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. They were the first circular stamps issued in independent India, and each shows one side of Gandhi’s life with one of his sayings in Hindi, signed “मो. क. गांधी”. Sankha Samanta designed the stamps and the miniature sheet, and the brochure text was written by Dr Amarpreet Duggal. India Security Press, Nashik printed 8 lakh of each stamp and 2 lakh miniature sheets.
The values are ₹5, ₹12, ₹20, ₹22, two of ₹25 and ₹41, which add up to the ₹150 of the miniature sheet.
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