About this stamp
On the Stamp
Gandhi seated at his spinning wheel, the charkha, at the Sabarmati Ashram, with a large wheel in the foreground. The saying reads “सादगी में भलाई है, महत्व है”: there is goodness and worth in simplicity.
Spinning khadi every day was at the heart of Gandhi’s simple life and of his call for self-reliance, and the charkha became a symbol of the freedom movement.
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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