Sant Gadge Baba (1876-1956)

Sant Gadge Baba, the saint of sanitation.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue December 20, 1998

Denomination Rs. 3

Quantity printed 700000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13 x 13½

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Credit Sh. Bharati Mirchandani

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1662 Stamp Number IN 1720 Yvert et Tellier IN 1427 Stanley Gibbons IN 1825

Themes Commemoration, Famous people, Men, Reformers

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Sant Gadge Baba in close-up beside a crowd of villagers, printed in blue, with his name in Hindi and English, on a ₹3 stamp.

Sant Gadge Baba

India Post issued this ₹3 stamp on 20 December 1998 for Sant Gadge Baba (1876–1956), a mendicant saint and social reformer from Maharashtra. He lived in voluntary poverty and wandered from village to village, promoting social justice and pressing for reform, above all in sanitation. He is still revered across Maharashtra. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamp itself.