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  • Commemorative Stamp
  • 24 September 2013

Pratap Narayan Mishra

Pratap Narayan Mishra, the Hindi essayist of the nineteenth century.

Date of issue September 24, 2013
Denomination Rs. 5
Quantity printed 320000
Printer India Security Press, Nashik
Perforation 13¼
Watermark No Watermark
Colours Multicolor
Printing process Wet Offset
Credit Smt. Vinita Sinha
Catalogue codes Michel IN 2785 Yvert et Tellier IN 2492 Stanley Gibbons IN 2967 WADP Numbering System - WNS IN097.2013

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Pratap Narayan Mishra

India Post issued this ₹5 stamp on 24 September 2013, his birthday, for Pratap Narayan Mishra (1856–1894), the Hindi essayist of the Bharatendu era, remembered for the slogan “Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan”. Among his works are Lokokti Shatak, Prarthana Shatak, Hathi Hammir and Kanpur Mahatmya.

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