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List of postage stamps of India (1961–1970)

Main article: List of postage stamps of India

This is a list of commemorative postage stamps issued by the India Post between 1961 and 1970.

1961 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 6 January 1961 Tyagaraja   15 np
* 50th Anniversary of First Official Airmail Flight, Allahabad to Naini (Set of 3 Stamps)
2 18 February 1961 First Air Mail Post - Golden Jubilee   5 np
3 18 February 1961 First Air Mail Post - Golden Jubilee   15 np
4 18 February 1961 First Air Mail Post - Golden Jubilee   1 Rs
5 17 April 1961 Chhatrapati Shivaji   15 np
6 6 May 1961 Motilal Nehru Birth Centenary   15 np
7 7 May 1961 Rabindranath Tagore Birth Centenary   15 np
8 8 June 1961 Silver Jubilee of All India Radio   15 np
9 2 August 1961 Birth Centenary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy   15 np
10 1 September 1961 Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande Birth Centenary   15 np
11 14 November 1961 National Children's Day   15 np
12 14 November 1961 Indian Industries Fair, New Delhi   15 np
13 21 November 1961 Centenary of Scientific Forestry   15 np
* Centenary of Archaeological Survey of India (Set of 2 Stamps)
14 14 December 1961 Pitalkhora Yaksha   15 np
15 14 December 1961 KalibanganSeal   90 np
16 25 December 1961 Birth Centenary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya   15 np

1962 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 1 January 1962 Inauguration of Gauhati Oil Refinery   15 np
2 26 January 1962 Birth Centenary of Madame Bhikaiji Cama   15 np
3 26 January 1962 Inauguration of Panchayati Raj in rural administration   15 np
4 4 March 1962 Swami Dayanand Saraswati   15 np
5 25 March 1962 Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi   15 np
6 7 April 1962 The world united against Malaria Eradication   15 np
7 13 May 1962 Retirement of President Dr.Rajendra Prasad   15 np
Centenary of High Courts. (Set of 3 Stamps)
8 1 July 1962 Calcutta High Court   15 np
9 6 August 1962 High court of judicature madras   15 np
10 14 August 1962 High court of Bombay   15 np
11 15 August 1962 Birth Centenary of Ramabai Ranade   15 np
12 1 October 1962 Rhino - Wild Life Week   15 np
13 14 November 1962 National Children's Day   15 np
14 3 December 1962 19th International Congress of Ophthalmology, New Delhi   15 np
15 22 December 1962 75th Birth Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan   15 np

1963 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 17 January 1963 Birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda   15 np
2 2 February 1963 Kalidasa Overprint Provisional issue.   1 R
3 21 March 1963 Freedom from Hunger   15 np
4 8 May 1963 Red Cross Centenary   15 np
* Defence Campaign. (Set of 2 Stamps)
5 15 August 1963 Artillery and army helicopter   15 np
6 15 August 1963 Sentry on duty and parachute dropping supplies   1 R
7 4 September 1963 Dr.Dadabhoy Naoroji   15 np
8 1 October 1963 Dr.Annie Besant   15 np
* Wild Life Preservation. (set of 5 stamps)
9 7 October 1963 Gaur   10 np
10 7 October 1963 Himalayan Panda   15 np
11 7 October 1963 Indian elephant   15 np
12 7 October 1963 Tiger   30 np
13 7 October 1963 Indian Lion   50 np
14 14 November 1963 National Children's Day   15 np
15 10 December 1963 15th Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights   15 np

1964 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 4 January 1964 26th International Orientalists Congress, New Delhi   15 np
2 4 January 1964 Utkalamani Pandit Gopabandhu Das   15 np
3 14 January 1964 400th Death Anniversary of Purandaradasa   15 np
* 67th Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose. (Set of 2 Stamps)
4 23 January 1964 Bose and INA insignia   15 np
5 23 January 1964 Bose leading Indian National Army   55 np
6 13 February 1964 85th Birth Anniversary of Sarojini Naidu   15 np
7 22 February 1964 20th Death Anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi   15 np
8 16 March 1964 Dr. Waldermar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine   15 np
9 12 June 1964 Nehru Mourning Issue   15 p
10 29 June 1964 Birth Centenary of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee   15 p
11 15 August 1964 92nd Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo   15 p
12 27 September 1964 Raja Rammohun Roy   15 p
13 9 November 1964 6th General Assembly of International Organization for Standardization, New Delhi   15 p
14 14 November 1964 National Children's Day   15 p
15 2 December 1964 St. Thomas   15 p
16 14 December 1964 22nd International Geological Congress, New Delhi   15 p

1965 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 7 January 1965 Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata   15 p
2 28 January 1965 Birth Centenary of Lala Lajpat Rai   15 p
3 8 February 1965 20th International Chamber of Commerce Congress, New Delhi   15 p
4 5 April 1965 National Maritime Day   15 p
5 15 April 1965 Death Centenary of Abraham Lincoln   15 p
6 17 May 1965 Centenary of International Telecommunication Union   15 p
7 27 May 1965 First Anniversary of Nehru's Death   15 p
8 26 June 1965 International Co-operation Year   15 p
9 15 August 1965 Indian Mount Everest Expedition   15 p
10 10 September 1965 Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant   15 p
11 31 October 1965 90th Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel   15 p
12 5 November 1965 95th Birth Anniversary of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das   15 p
13 17 November 1965 Vidyapati Thakur   15 p

1966 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 24 January 1966 15th Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, New Delhi   15 p
2 26 January 1966 Valour of Indian Armed Forces in 1965 war   15 p
3 26 January 1966 Lal Bahadur Shastri Mourning issue   15 p
4 5 April 1966 Kambar   15 p
5 14 April 1966 75th Birth Anniversary of Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar   15 p
6 23 April 1966 Babu Kunwar Singh   15 p
7 9 May 1966 Birth Centenary of Gopal Krishna Gokhale   15 p
8 15 May 1966 Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi   15 p
9 28 June 1966 Maharaja Ranjit Singh   15 p
10 4 August 1966 Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha   15 p
11 11 November 1966 Maulana Abul Kalam Azad   15 p
12 11 November 1966 60th Death Anniversary of Swami Rama Tirtha   15 p
13 14 November 1966 National Children's Day   15 p
14 25 November 1966 Centenary of Allahabad High Court   15 p
15 12 December 1966 Family Planning Week   15 p
16 31 December 1966 India's Hockey Victory in 5th Asian Games, Bangkok   15 p

1967 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 11 January 1967 First Death Anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri   15 p
2 13 January 1967 4th Indian General Election   15 p
3 17 January 1967 300th Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh   15 p
4 19 March 1967 International Tourist Year   15 p
5 16 April 1967 First Death Anniversary of Acharya Nandalal Bose   15 p
6 1 May 1967 Survey of India Bicentenary   15 p
7 11 May 1967 800th Death Anniversary of Basaveswara   15 p
8 30 May 1967 Narsinha Mehta   15 p
9 11 June 1967 Maharana Pratap   15 p
10 21 August 1967 Narayana Guru   15 p
11 5 September 1967 Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan   15 p
12 1 October 1967 25th Anniversary of Quit India Movement   15 p
13 9 November 1967 Centenary of Indo-European Telegraph Service   15 p
14 12 November 1967 World Wrestling Championships, New Delhi   15 p
15 12 December 1967 4th Anniversary of Statehood of Nagaland   15 p
16 26 December 1967 Rashbehari Basu   15 p
17 27 December 1967 Diamond Jubilee of Scout Movement in India   15 p

1968 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 1 January 1968 International Year for Human Rights   15 p
2 3 January 1968 2nd International Conference-Seminar of Tamil Studies, Madras   15 p
3 1 February 1968 2nd United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, New Delhi   15 p
4 20 February 1968 Amrita Bazar Patrika Centenary   15 p
5 28 March 1968 Birth Centenary of Maxim Gorky   15 p
6 31 March 1968 First Triennale, New Delhi   20 p
7 1 July 1968 Opening of 1,00,000th Post Office at Brahmpur, Chaurasta, Bihar   15 p
8 17 July 1968 Wheat Revolution   15 p
9 17 September 1968 30th Death Anniversary of Gaganendranath Tagore   20 p
10 5 October 1968 Birth Centenary of Lakshminath Bezbaruah   15 p
* XIX Olympic Games, Mexico City. (Set of 2 Stamps)
11 12 October 1968 Athlete's legs and Olympic Rings   20 p
12 12 October 1968 Athlete's legs and Olympic Rings   1 R
13 19 October 1968 61st Birth Anniversary of Bhagat Singh   20 p
14 21 October 1968 25th Anniversary of Azad Hind Government   20 p
15 27 October 1968 Birth Centenary of Sister Nivedita   20 p
16 6 November 1968 Birth Centenary of Madame Marie Curie   20 p
17 1 December 1968 21st International Geographical Congress, New Delhi   20 p
18 15 December 1968 400th Anniversary of Cochin Synagogue   20 p
19 15 December 1968 INS Nilgiri   20 p
* Indian birds Series (Set of 4 Stamps)
20 31 December 1968 Blue Magpie   20 p
21 31 December 1968 Himalayan Woodpecker   50 p
22 31 December 1968 Babbler   1 R
23 31 December 1968 Sunbird   20 p

1969 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 1 January 1969 130th Birth Anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee   20 p
2 12 January 1969 Birth Centenary of Dr.Bhagavan Das   20 p
3 25 January 1969 Dr. Martin Luther King   20 p
4 17 February 1969 Death Anniversary of Mirza Ghalib   20 p
5 15 March 1969 50th Anniversary of Osmania University   20 p
6 1 April 1969 20th Anniversary of 'ALL UP' Air Mail Scheme   20 p
7 11 April 1969 50th Anniversary of International Labour Organization   20 p
8 13 April 1969 50th Anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Amritsar   20 p
9 1 May 1969 Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu   20 p
10 27 May 1969 Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia   20 p
11 7 June 1969 150th Anniversary of Serampore College, West Bengal   20 p
12 11 June 1969 Dr.Zakir Hussain   20 P
13 20 June 1969 Birth Centenary of Laxmanrao Kirloskar   20 p
* Birth Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi. (Set of 4 stamps)
14 2 October 1969 Gandhiji and Kasturba   20 p
15 2 October 1969 Mahatma Gandhi   75 p
16 2 October 1969 Gandhi on the Dandi march   1 R
17 2 October 1969 Gandhi with Charkha, Sun (Truth) and Lotus (Non-Violence)   5 Rs
18 14 October 1969 10th Anniversary of Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Organization   20 p
19 30 October 1969 57th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi   20 p
20 19 November 1969 First Man on the Moon   20 p
21 23 November 1969 500th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev   20 p
22 24 November 1969 International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Conference, New Delhi   20 p
23 25 November 1969 90th Birth Anniversary of Sadhu Vaswani   20 p
24 29 November 1969 Birth Centenary of Thakkar Bapa   20 p

1970 edit

# Issue Date Description Image Denomination
1 21 January 1970 12th Plenary Assembly of International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR)   20 p
2 3 February 1970 First Death Anniversary of C. N. Annadurai   20 p
3 19 February 1970 75th Death Anniversary of Munshi Newal Kishore   20 p
4 27 March 1970 Centenary of Nalanda College   20 p
5 30 March 1970 Swami Shraddhanand   20 p
6 22 April 1970 Birth Centenary of Vladimir Illyich Lenin   20 p
7 20 May 1970 New Universal Postal Union Headquarters Building, Berne   20 p
8 22 May 1970 425th Death Anniversary of Sher Shah Suri   20 p
9 28 May 1970 Vinayak Damodar Savarkar   20 p
10 26 June 1970 25th Anniversary of United Nations Organisation   20 p
11 18 August 1970 Asian Productivity Year   20 p
12 31 August 1970 International Education Year (Birth Centenary of Dr. Maria Montessori)   20 P
13 9 September 1970 Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin)   20 p
14 22 September 1970 Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri   20 p
15 26 September 1970 150th Birth Anniversary of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar   20 p
16 14 October 1970 Maharsi Valmiki (Author of Epic Ramayana)   20 p
17 17 October 1970 Centenary of Calcutta Port Commissioner   20 p
18 29 October 1970 50th Anniversary of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi   20 p
19 4 November 1970 Jamnalal Bajaj   20 p
20 5 November 1970 50th Anniversary of Indian Red Cross Society   20 p
21 9 November 1970 700th Birth Anniversary of Sant Namdeo   20 p
22 16 December 1970 Birth Bicentenary of Ludwig van Beethoven   20 p
* India National Philatelic Exhibition, 1970 New Delhi (Set of 2 Stamps)
23 23 December 1970 Children Examining Stamp on Gandhi   20 p
24 30 December 1970 Hands Holding Magnifier - 1969 Stamp   1 R
25 27 December 1970 Diamond Jubilee of Girl Guides Movement in India   20 p

References edit

  • Jain, Manik (2017). Phila India Stamp Guide Book (1800-2017) (19th ed.). Kolkata: Philatelia. pp. 57–72.

External links edit

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