INDIA COMMEMORATIVES STAMPS 1976

 

Hiralal Shastri 1899-1974
 
Hiralal Shastri was born on November 24, 1899 at Jobner in Jaipur District..

  

 

Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur 1976 [ Banasthali Vidyapith: Hiralal Shastri (1899 - 1974) 

Maharaja Agrasen 1976

 

Stamp Issue Date:   24/09/1976
Postage Stamp Dinomination:  0.25
Postal Stamp Serial Number:  0824
Postal Stamp Name: MAHARAJA AGRASEN & COINS
Stamp Currency: P
Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE
Stamp Language : English
Indian Stamp's Color: Multicolour

Maharaja Agrasena was a legendary Indian king of Agroha in India, a city of traders, from whom the Agrawal community claims descent.He is credited with the establishment of a kingdom of traders in North India, and is known for his compassion in refusing to slaughter animals in yajnas.

Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922

 

Date of Issue : 10 March 1976

Occasion : Alexander Graham Bell - Commemoration

 

 

16 Light Cavalry

 

 Though the role and importance of the mounted soldier and his successor the tankman is changing fast in modern warfare, he still retains his place of honour in the Indian Army as established by history and tradition. Our Armoured Corps today combines the dash and elan of old cavaliers and lancers with the proficiency of expert gunners and the scientific skill of electronic operators.16th Light Cavalry is the senior most regiment of the Armoured Corps, entitled to stand on the right of all units on parade next after the President's Bodyguard.The regiment has been in existence as a separate and continuous entity from 1776 when it was serving the Nawab of Arcot as his 3rd Regiment of Cavalry. It fought so well in the Carnatic Wars of Seventeen-eighties that the East India Company got it permanently transferred to its own Army.During two hundred years of distinguished service, the regiment has seen many changes of organization and designations. Manned originally by men from the Madras Presidency, its composition was changed in 1903 to Rajputs, Jats and Decanni Mohamadans. Since independence the Regiment has regained its original South Indian Composition. The Regiment assumed its present designation in 1922.In 1940, the Regiment gave up its horses and sabres to fight with guns and cannons in tanks and armoured cars. In the Second World War, the Regiment showed its prowess in mechanised warfare by spearheading the reconquest of Burma from the Japanese. During the Indo-Pak wars of 1965 and 1971, the Regiment fought in the van of the Indian advance into Pakistan in Pasrur and Shakargarh sectors. The battle honour of ‘Pillora’ is now inscribed on its standards.The regiment was the first to be selected for Indianisation and among its first officers are such distinguished leaders of post-independence Indian Army as Lt. General J.N.Chaudhuri, Lt. General M.S. Wadalia and Lt. General S.D.Verma.In the course of its long career, the Regiment has won numerous distinctions including battle honours, gallantry awards, mentions in despatches and commendation cards.To mark its bicentenary the President of India presenting colours to this famous Regiment on 4th March 1976. Stamp depicting a Vijayanta tank manufactured in India. 

Date of issue: 4.3.1976

Jim Corbett ( Naturalist ) - Birth Centenary

 

Edward James Corbett alias Jim Corbett, as he is widely known, was born at Nainital on July 25, 1875. His father, Christopher Corbett, was a Post Master at Nainital. Jim got his schooling at Nainital and studied up to Matric. He spent most of his holidays at the family's winter home at Kaladhungi, 15 miles from Nainital in the foothills. It was in Kaladhungi and its surrounding forests that Jim Corbett learnt all he knew about the jungle.

Jim Corbett got a job in the Railways at Mokameh Ghat in Bihar at the age of 18. He worked as Fuel Inspector and later as Assistant Station Master and Store Keeper. Thereafter, he became a labour contractor. At the time of the First World War, he got recruited 500 men from Kumaon and took them to France. In 1920, he returned to Nainital. He was a Member of the Municipal Board, Nainital from 1920 to 1944. During the Second World War, he gave Jungle Warfare Training to the soldiers.

While living at Mokameh Ghat, Jim Corbett used to go to Kumaon to kill man-eaters. He had an excellent knowledge of Kumaon forests and was well-conversant with its wild life. He could call animals by imitating their calls. His shooting was confined to killing of man-eating tigers and leopards. During his hunting career, he shot dead 12 man-eaters which had killed at least 1500 persons among the villages of Kumaon.

Jim Corbett was a great lover of wild life. He repeatedly stressed the fact that unless wounded or attacked, wild animals seldom or never caused harm to any one. He disliked killing animals except out of necessity. He formed a society to preserve India's wild life and published a magazine called 'Indian Wild Life'. Through his efforts, a game sanctuary was established in Garhwal known as Hailey National Park. This was re-named in 1957 as Corbett National Park in recognition of his services for preservation of wild life.

Jim Corbett was a good writer. His writing was fluent, interesting and powerful. He wrote six books-Man-eaters of Kumaon, My India, Man-eating Leopard of Rudraprayag, Jungle Lore, Temple Tiger and Tree Tops. These books became very popular. He spent the major portion of his royalty from these books on the blind in England and India. He also used to distribute medicines to the sick people in Kumaon and took interest in their welfare.

Jim Corbett migrated to Kenya, along with his sister Maggie, in 1947. He died at Nyeri in Kenya on April 19, 1955 at the age of 80. The Govt. of Uttar Pradesh has acquired his house at Kaladhungi and has maintained it as a Museum.

The Posts & Telegraphs Department is privileged to issue a commemorative stamp in honour of Jim Corbett during the year of his birth centenary, 

World Health Day - Prevention of Blindness

 

Industrial Development

American Revolution - Bicentenary

 
Description : " Spirit of 76 " (Willard)

 

Family Planning

 

Inaugeration of Indian Airlines Airbus Service
     Description : Airbus A300 B2

 

Vande Mataram " - Centenary

 

Stamp Issue Date : 30/12/1976  

Postage Stamp Dinomination : 0.25  

Postal Stamp Serial Number : 0836  

Postal Stamp Name : 1ST STANZA OF VANDEMATARAM 

Stamp Information : 'Vande Mataram', the immortal song composed by Bankin Chandra Chaterjee, is more than a hundred years old. Though it first appeared in the first instalmant of serialisation of Bankim Chandra's Bengali novel, Anand Mth, in 1881, there is clear evidence to show that it was composed independentaly earlier in 1875. riting in the English Daily, 'Bande Mataram', on 16th april 1907, Sri Aurobindo said: "It as 32 years ago that Bankim wrote his great song.....". In his novel Anand Mth, Bankim Chandra rote about sanyasis ho left their hearths and homes and dedicated their lives to the cause of their matherland. The characters in his novel personified the motherland as the Mother Goddess and worshipped her as such. They kne noo other deity excepting the motherland and no other religion excepting the religion of patriotism. This spirit was refleccted in the song 'Vande Mataram'. According to Sri Aurobindo, Bankim Chandra perceived three main elements which constituted the moral strength so necessary for serving the motherland. They were firstly Tyaga or complete self-sacrifice, secondly self-discipline and organisation and thirdly patritisam itself as religion. These ideas found perfect lyrical expression in the great song hich enthused and actvated millions of people during the freedom struggle. The song aroused the spirit of intense nationalism. While the Song became the anthem of resurgent Indian nationalism, its likee 'Vande Mataram' (meaning: I bow to thee, Mother) became the battle cry of freedom fighters all over the country. Rabindranath Tagore set the song to music and sang it at the 1896 session of the Indian National Congress. He did so again in the Calcutta session of the Congres in 1906. The impact of the song over the people as so much that the then alien rulers were alarmed. They restored to repressive measures and prohibited the shouting of 'Vande Mataram' in schools, colleges and public places. At thousands of places throughout the length and bredth of the then undivided India, people ere beaten up and jailed by the authorities just for shouting 'Vande Mataram'. The fame of the song spread abroad also. hen Gopal Krishna Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912, a mammoth gathering greated him at Capetown ith the slogan 'Vande Mataram'. Referring to the 'Vande Mataram' song Mahatma Gandhi rote in the Harijan in July 1939: "It is enthroned in the hearts of millions. It stirs to its depth the patritism of millions in and outside Bengal. Its chosen stanzas are Bengal's gift among many others to the hole nation...." In August 1948 Jaaharlal Nehru said in a statement made in Parliament: "Vande Mataram is obviously and indisputaably the premier natinal song of India with a great historical tradition: it was intimately connected with our struggle for freeedom. That position, it is bound to retain and no other song can displace it. It represents the passion and poignancy of that struggle...." At the time of constitution-making, although Rabindranath Tagore's song, Jana-gana-mana, as adopted as the national anthem of Independent India, Vande Mataram was given an equal sttus ith Jana-gana-mana. The following is the text of the first stanza of the Vande Mataram song: Vande Mataram, Sujalam, suphalam, malayajasshitatalam, Sasyashyamalaam, mataram, Shubhrajyotsana pulakitayaminim, Phullakusumita drumadala shobhinim, Suhasininm sumadhura bhasininm, Sukhadam, vardam, Mataram! The English translation of the stanza by Sri Aurobindo is: I bow to thee, Mother, richly-watered, richly-fruited, cool ith the inds of the south, dark ith the crops of the harvests, the Mother! Her nights rejoiceing in the glory of the moonlight, her lands clothed beautifully ith her trees in floering bloom, seet of laughter,seet of speech, the Mother, giver of boons, giver of bliss! The Posts and Telegraphs DEpartment is privileged to issue a commemorative postage stamp honouring the national song, 'Vande Mataram'. Philatelic Stamp Description : The design of the stamp is horizontal and reproduces the first stanza of the song "Vande Mataram". 

Stamp Currency : P Stamp Type : COMMEMORATIVE 

Stamp Language : English  

Stamp Overall Size : 3.91 X 2.90 cms  

Postal Stamp Print Size : 3.56 x 2.5 cms.  

Number of Stamps Per Sheet : 35  

Stamp Perforations : 13 x 13  

Postal Stamp Shape : Diagonal  

Postage Stamp Paper : Unwatermarked adhesive stamp paper 

Indian Stamp Process : Photogravure   

Number of stamps printed : 30,00,000  

Stamp Printed At : India Security Press  

Indian Stamp's Color : Multicolour

 

Volantary Blood Donation