About this stamp
A Hundred Years of Patna University
India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 25 August 2018 for the centenary of Patna University, founded by an Act of the legislature on 1 October 1917: the seventh-oldest university in the subcontinent and the first in Bihar. For its first forty years it examined students from matriculation to postgraduate level across Bihar, Orissa and Nepal, until Utkal University and Tribhuvan University took over in Orissa and Nepal.
A Teaching University
The Patna University Act of 1951 made it a teaching and residential university; it was the only university in Bihar until January 1952. It now has thirty postgraduate departments and ten constituent colleges, among them Patna College, Science College, B. N. College, Magadh Mahila College, Patna Women’s College and Vanijya Mahavidyalaya, many housed in buildings that are part of Bihar’s architectural heritage. India Post links it to the state’s older tradition of learning at Nalanda and Vikramashila.
On the Stamp
The university’s historic buildings in warm orange and gold, with its crest and the years 1917–2017. It was designed by Brahm Prakash, with the cancellation by Nenu Gupta; 602,600 were printed by wet offset at the Security Printing Press, Hyderabad.
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