Gandhi Centenary – The Dandi March

Gandhi on the Dandi March.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue October 2, 1969

Denomination Rs. 1

Quantity printed 2250000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 14 x 14½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Blue

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 483 Stamp Number IN 499 Yvert et Tellier IN 282 Stanley Gibbons IN 597

Themes Anniversaries and Jubilees, Art, Famous people, Lawyers-Advocates, Men, Philosophers

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Mahatma Gandhi striding forward with his walking stick, drawn in white lines on blue, with the words “Gandhi Centenary” in Hindi and English and the dates 1869-1969, on a ₹1 stamp.

The Dandi March

India Post issued four stamps on 2 October 1969, the hundredth birthday of Mahatma Gandhi, born at Porbandar on 2 October 1869: a 20 paise, a 75 paise, a ₹1 and a ₹5, each inscribed “Gandhi Centenary” and “1869-1969” in Hindi and English. The centenary year was marked across India and by many countries abroad. The ₹1 stamp shows Gandhi on the march, as he walked to Dandi in 1930. Setting out from his Sabarmati Ashram with a band of followers on 12 March, he walked some 385 km to the sea at Dandi, where on 6 April he made salt in defiance of the salt tax. The Salt March drew the eyes of the world and started a movement of civil disobedience across India.