Shaheed Laxman Nayak

The tribal leader of Koraput, before barbed wire.

Technical data Notes Condition

Date of issue March 29, 1989

Denomination 60 p

Quantity printed 1000000

Printer Security Printing Press, Nashik

Perforation comb 13½ x 13

Watermark No Watermark

Colours Multicolor

Printing process Photogravure

Catalogue codes Michel IN 1212 Stamp Number IN 1274 Yvert et Tellier IN 1014 Stanley Gibbons IN 1366

Themes Commemoration, Famous people, Freedom Fighters, Heroes, Men

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A portrait of Laxman Nayak with barbed wire behind him and a small Indian flag in the corner, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.

Shaheed Laxman Nayak

India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 29 March 1989, the anniversary of his execution. Born on 22 November 1899 at Tentuliguma in Koraput, the son of a tribal chieftain, he organised the tribal people against the officials of the Jeypore estate and joined the Congress, carrying the charkha and the message of adult education and abstinence from house to house. On 21 August 1942 he led a peaceful procession to the Mathili police station, where the police opened fire and killed forty people. He was falsely implicated in a murder case and hanged in Berhampur Jail on 29 March 1943.