Maulana Abul Kalam Azad

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, India's first Education Minister, on a ₹5 definitive stamp of the Creators of India series.

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Date of issue October 1, 2015

Denomination Rs. 5

Perforation 12¾ x 13

Watermark Asokan Capital Multiple [Up]

Colours Dark brown

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2904 Stamp Number IN 2761 Yvert et Tellier IN 2644G Stanley Gibbons IN 3079

Themes Famous people, Headgear, Independency Activists, Literary People (Poets and Writers), Men, Politicians

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Maulana Abul Kalam Azad on a definitive stamp of the Creators of India series. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad (1888–1958), scholar and leader of the freedom struggle, twice president of the Indian National Congress, was the first Education Minister of independent India; his birthday is National Education Day.

Creators of India

This definitive belongs to the series of portraits of the people who shaped modern India that India Post began in 2015, which catalogues call Creators of India. No India Post brochure is published for definitive stamps; this text draws on Wikipedia.