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A portrait of Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt, printed in orange brown, with his name in Hindi and English, on a 60 paise stamp.
Tyagmurti Goswami Ganeshdutt
India Post issued this 60 paise stamp on 2 November 1987, the anniversary of his birth at Chiniot, in Punjab, in 1889. He vowed to wear coarse cloth and eat one meal a day, which earned him the name Tyagmurti. As General Secretary of the Sanatana Dharma Sabha he built schools, colleges, dharamshalas and dispensaries across northern India, and he established camps for displaced people after partition. He died at Hardwar on 10 June 1959.
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