Swami Vivekananda

Swami Vivekananda, the monk and thinker, on a ₹5 definitive stamp of the Creators of India series.

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Date of issue October 1, 2015

Denomination Rs. 5

Perforation 12¾ x 13

Watermark Asokan Capital Multiple [Up]

Colours Dark brown

Catalogue codes Michel IN 2903 Stamp Number IN 2760 Yvert et Tellier IN 2644F Stanley Gibbons IN 3078

Themes Famous people, Headgear, Men, Monks, Philosophers

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On the Stamp

Swami Vivekananda on a definitive stamp of the Creators of India series. Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902), the disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, spoke for Hinduism at the Parliament of the World’s Religions at Chicago in 1893 and founded the Ramakrishna Mission in 1897; his birthday is National Youth Day.

Creators of India

This definitive belongs to the series of portraits of the people who shaped modern India that India Post began in 2015, which catalogues call Creators of India. No India Post brochure is published for definitive stamps; this text draws on Wikipedia.