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A portrait of T. Ramaswamy Chowdary in spectacles, between stripes of saffron and green, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Tripuraneni Ramaswamy Chowdary
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 25 April 1987. Known as the Kaviraju, he was born at Angaluru in Krishna district on 15 January 1887. He studied the Sanskrit texts closely and concluded that they gave no sanction to caste or untouchability. He wrote in Telugu to lead people to rational thought, and his Vivaha Vidhi offered a simple form of the marriage ceremony. He died in 1943.
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