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A portrait of S. D. Kitchlew in a white cap and round spectacles, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Saifuddin Kitchlew
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 13 April 1989, seventy years after the massacre at Jallianwala Bagh. Born at Amritsar on 15 January 1888, he studied at Cambridge, London and in Germany and became a successful lawyer. His arrest, with Dr. Satyapal, in the protests against the Rowlatt Act in 1919 made him a legend in his own lifetime. He was General Secretary of the All India Congress Committee in 1924 and chaired the reception committee of the Lahore session of 1929. He called the partition of India “a surrender of nationalism in favour of communalism”, and was the first Indian to receive the Lenin Peace Prize.
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