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On the Stamp
The 5 paise Family Planning definitive in cerise, with the Bangalore “Refugee Relief” overprint in black.
The Bangalore Overprint
From 15 November 1971 to 31 March 1973 the Government of India charged an extra 5 paise on all mail except postcards and newspapers, to help the millions of refugees who had fled from East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, during the troubles and war of 1971. The tax was paid with special Refugee Relief stamps, stuck on beside the ordinary postage. The first Refugee Relief stamps were the 5 paise Family Planning definitive overprinted “Refugee Relief” in Hindi and English, the overprint typographed in black. Besides the national overprint, a few places had officially sanctioned overprints of their own, set in different type; this one comes from Bangalore.
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