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A spinning wheel in white on red, overwritten with Gandhi’s handwritten words and the date 8-8-42, with the words “Do or Die – Mahatma Gandhi” and “1942 Quit India” in Hindi and English, on a ₹1 stamp.
Do or Die: the Spinning Wheel
India Post issued two stamps on 9 August 1992, ₹1 and ₹2, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Quit India movement, launched at the Bombay session of the All India Congress Committee on 8 August 1942. In his speech at Gowalia Tank that day, Gandhi gave the country a mantra: “Do or Die. We shall either free India or die in the attempt.” This stamp sets his handwritten message on the spinning wheel, the emblem of his movement. Its companion sets the same words beside his profile.
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