About this stamp
On the Stamp
The map of India in white on a bright carmine red ground, with a lotus border on the left and the words “India Postage”, on a 13 naye paise stamp.
The Map of India
On 1 April 1957 India changed to decimal coinage, dividing the rupee into a hundred naye paise, and a new series of definitive stamps showing the map of India was issued in the new currency the same day. The stamps were printed by the Security Printing Press at Nashik on paper watermarked with a pattern of stars; from 1958 they were printed on paper watermarked with the Asoka lion capital. This page is the 13 naye paise bright carmine red of the first printing.
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