In its long and varied postal history

Postage stamps and postal history of India

This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of India.Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British displaced the Mughals, their postal systems...

, India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

 has produced a large number of postage stamp

Postage stamp

A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...

s. They have been produced by a number of techniques which include line engraving

Line engraving

Line engraving is a term for engraved images printed on paper to be used as prints or illustrations. The term is now much less used and when is, it is mainly in connection with 18th or 19th century commercial illustrations for magazines and books, or reproductions of paintings.Steel engraving is...

, typography

Typography

Typography is the art and technique of arranging type in order to make language visible. The arrangement of type involves the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, leading , adjusting the spaces between groups of letters and adjusting the space between pairs of letters...

, lithography

Lithography

Lithography is a method for printing using a stone or a metal plate with a completely smooth surface...

, photogravure

Photogravure

Photogravure is an intaglio printmaking or photo-mechanical process whereby a copper plate is coated with a light-sensitive gelatin tissue which had been exposed to a film positive, and then etched, resulting in a high quality intaglio print that can reproduce the detail and continuous tones of a...

 and web-offset. Stamps have been produced both for postage and for service or revenue. Definitives and commemoratives have been issued. Stamps have been produced both as unperforated sheets, perforated sheets and miniature sheets. The stamps have peen produced in a number of shapes - the Scinde Dawk

Scinde Dawk

Scinde Dawk was a very old postal system of runners that served the Indus Valley of Sindh, an area of present-day Pakistan. The term also refers to the first postage stamps in Asia, the forerunners of the adhesive stamps used throughout India, Burma, the Straits Settlements and other areas...

 being rounded and some, like the stamp on the Bombay Sappers being triangular. Recently the 2009 stamp on Louis Braille had braille

Braille

The Braille system is a method that is widely used by blind people to read and write, and was the first digital form of writing.Braille was devised in 1825 by Louis Braille, a blind Frenchman. Each Braille character, or cell, is made up of six dot positions, arranged in a rectangle containing two...

 imprinting on it in addition. Many cases of overprinting exist - for converting the use of domestic postage stamps to service; to earmark stamps sold by field post offices attached with international control commissions and other reasons.

The Indian Postal Service

Indian Postal Service

The Department of Posts functioning under the brand name India Post , is a government operated postal system in India; it is generally referred to within India as "the post office"....

 has issued stamps on many themes - relating to history, architecture, nature, culture and heritage. Provisions exist for organisations and interested bodies to suggest the printing of special commemorative stamps as well as first day covers and cancellations. The Indian Post runs philatelic bureaus, operates deposit based philateic services, a philatelic magazine and also publishes lists of stamps from time to time.

This article lists the stamps in two sections - Indian postage before and after independence. Stamps belonging to convention and feudatory states have been excluded.

Stamps produced in British India

Though British rule in India began effectively in the mid-eighteenth century, the first stamp was only issued in 1852, years after the first Penny Black

Penny Black

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was issued in Britain on 1 May 1840, for official use from 6 May of that year....

 was issued in England. This was the Scinde Dawk followed by the East India company issues and a long series of Queen Victoria heads.

Stamps produced in independent India

India's independence saw the postal department issue its first stamp on 21 Nov 1947 depicting the Indian flag. The Dominion of India issued stamps from 1947 to 1949 with the caption of INDIA POSTAGE. In 1950, India became a republic and the first stamps of India as a republic was a series of four issued on that very day. The stamp issues continued to be in Annas (abbreviated as "As") till 1957, when the Indian rupee

Indian rupee

The Indian rupee is the official currency of the Republic of India. The issuance of the currency is controlled by the Reserve Bank of India....

 was decimalised

Decimalisation

Decimal currency is the term used to describe any currency that is based on one basic unit of currency and a sub-unit which is a power of 10, most commonly 100....

 and the rupee was divided into 100 naye paise (Hindi for "new paise"). In 1964, the initial "naye" was dropped. This change in currency is faithfully reflected in the denomination of the stamps of the time. The initial stamps were commemoratives or special issues. In 1949 the first definitive "Archeological" series of 16 values was issued.

1947

1. Independence series (03 values). Indian Flag
   Flag of India
   The National flag of India is a horizontal rectangular tricolour of deep saffron, white and India green; with the Ashok Chakra, a 24-spoke wheel, in navy blue at its centre. It was adopted in its present form during a meeting of the Constituent Assembly held on 22 July 1947, when it became the...
   
    3½ A, Aśokan capital
   Lion Capital of Asoka
   The Lion capital of Ashoka is a sculpture of four "Indian lions" standing back to back. It was originally placed atop the Aśoka pillar at Sarnath, now in the state of Uttar Pradesh, India by Emperor Ashoka circa 250 BC. The pillar, sometimes called the Aśoka Column is still in its original...
   
    1½ As, Aircraft
   Douglas DC-4
   The Douglas DC-4 is a four-engined propeller-driven airliner developed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It served during World War II, in the Berlin Airlift and into the 1960s in a military role...
   
    12As.

1948

1. Air India
   Air India
   Air India is the flag carrier airline of India. It is part of the government of India owned Air India Limited . The airline operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Its corporate office is located at the Air India Building at Nariman...
   
    International 12As - Inauguration of the U.K.Air Service.
2. Mahatma Gandhi
   Mahatma Gandhi
   Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
   
    series (four values) - 1½ As, 3½ As, 12 As, 10 Rs. Issued on the first Anniversary of Independence. This series meant to venerate Gandhi, was published instead as a mourning issue.

1952

1. Indian Saints and Poets. Kabir
   Kabir
   Kabīr was a mystic poet and saint of India, whose writings have greatly influenced the Bhakti movement...
   
   , Tulsidas
   Tulsidas
   Tulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...
   
   , Meera Bai, Surdas
   Surdas
   Surdas, the 15th century sightless saint, poet and musician, is known for his devotional songs dedicated to Lord Krishna. Surdas is said to have written and composed a hundred thousand songs in his magnum opus the 'Sur Sagar' , out of which only about 8,000 are extant...
   
   , Ghalib and Rabindranath
   Rabindranath Tagore
   Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
   
   

1953

1. Railway Centenary.
2. Conquest of Mount Everest
   Mount Everest
   Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...
   
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3. Centenary of Indian Telegraphs.

1954

1. Postage Stamp
   Postage stamp
   A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...
   
    Centenary.
2. United Nations
   United Nations
   The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
   
    Day.
3. Fourth World Forestry Congress
   World Forestry Congress
   The World Forestry Congress is the largest and most significant gathering of the world's forestry sector and it has been held every six years since 1926 under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , organized by the government of the host country...
   
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1957

1. Indian Mutiny Centenary
2. 19th International Red Cross Conference, New Delhi
   New Delhi
   New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
   
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3. National Children's Day
   Children's Day
   "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
   
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4. Centenary of Indian Universities.

1958

1. 50th Anniversary of first indigenous Steel Industry.
2. Birth Centenary of Dr.Dhondo Keshav Karve
   Dhondo Keshav Karve
   Maharshi Dr. Dhondo Keshav Karve was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. In honour of Karve, Queen's Road in Mumbai was renamed to Maharishi Karve Road...
   
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3. Silver Jubilee of Indian Air Force
   Indian Air Force
   The Indian Air Force is the air arm of the Indian armed forces. Its primary responsibility is to secure Indian airspace and to conduct aerial warfare during a conflict...
   
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4. Birth Centenary of Bipin Chandra Pal
   Bipin Chandra Pal
   Bipin Chandra Pal was an Indian nationalist. He was among the triumvirate of Lal Bal Pal.-Early life and background:...
   
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5. National Children's Day
   Children's Day
   "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
   
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6. Birth Centenary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
7. India-1958 Exhibition, New Delhi.

1959

1. Death Centenary of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.
2. 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation (I.L.O.).
3. National Children's Day
   Children's Day
   "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
   
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4. First World Agriculture
   Agriculture
   Agriculture is the cultivation of animals, plants, fungi and other life forms for food, fiber, and other products used to sustain life. Agriculture was the key implement in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that nurtured the...
   
    Fair, New Delhi.

1960

1. Thiruvalluvar.
2. Kalidasa
   Kalidasa
   Kālidāsa was a renowned Classical Sanskrit writer, widely regarded as the greatest poet and dramatist in the Sanskrit language...
   
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3. Subramania Bharati.
4. Birth Centenary of Dr.Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.
5. National Children's Day
   Children's Day
   "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
   
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6. UNICEF Day.

1961

1. Tyagaraja
   Tyagaraja
   Kakarla Tyagabrahmam , colloquially known as Tyāgarājar and Tyagayya was one of the greatest composers of Carnatic music or classical South Indian music. He, along with his contemporaries Muthuswami Dikshitar and Shyama Shastry, forms the Trinity of Carnatic music...
   
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2. 50th Anniversary of First Official Airmail
   Airmail
   Airmail is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send...
   
    Flight, Allahabad to Naini.
3. Chhatrapati Shivaji.
4. Motilal Nehru
   Motilal Nehru
   Motilal Nehru was an early Indian independence activist and leader of the Indian National Congress, who remained Congress President twice, and...
   
    Birth Centenary.
5. Rabindranath Tagore
   Rabindranath Tagore
   Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...
   
    Birth Centenary.
6. Silver Jubilee of All India Radio
   All India Radio
   All India Radio , officially known since 1956 as Akashvani , is the radio broadcaster of India and a division of Prasar Bharati. Established in 1936, it is the sister service of Prasar Bharati's Doordarshan, the national television broadcaster. All India Radio is one of the largest radio networks...
   
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7. Birth Centenary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy
   Prafulla Chandra Roy
   Prafulla Chandra Ray was a Indian academician, a chemist and entrepreneur. He was the founder of Bengal Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals, India's first pharmaceutical company...
   
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8. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
   Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande
   Pandit Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande was an Indian musicologist who wrote the first modern treatise on Hindustani Classical Music , an art which had been propagated earlier for a few centuries mostly through oral traditions...
   
    Birth Centenary
9. National Children's Day
   Children's Day
   "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
   
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10. Indian Industries Fair, New Delhi.
11. Centenary of Scientific Forestry.
12. Centenary of Archaeological Survey of India
    Archaeological Survey of India
    The Archaeological Survey of India is a department of the Government of India, attached to the Ministry of Culture . The ASI is responsible for archaeological studies and the preservation of archaeological heritage of the country in accordance with the various acts of the Indian Parliament...
    
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13. Birth Centenary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya
    Madan Mohan Malaviya
    Madan Mohan Malaviya was an Indian educationist, and freedom fighter notable for his role in the Indian independence movement and his espousal of Hindu nationalism...
    
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1962

1. Inauguration of Gauhati Oil Refinery.
2. Birth Centenary of Madame Bhikaiji Cama
   Bhikaiji Cama
   Bhikaiji Rustom CamaBhikhai- is the name as it appears in the biographies. Another common form is Bhikai- , as it appears on the postage stamp. The name is also frequently misspelled 'Bhikha-' , which is a male name...
   
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3. Inauguration of Panchayati Raj
   Panchayati Raj
   The panchayat raj is a South Asian political system mainly in India, Pakistan, and Nepal. "Panchayat" literally means assembly of five wise and respected elders chosen and accepted by the local community. Traditionally, these assemblies settled disputes between individuals and villages...
   
    in rural administration.
4. Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
5. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
   Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi
   Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi , was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He is mostly known as the founder-editor of the Hindi language newspaper, Pratap....
   
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6. Malaria
   Malaria
   Malaria is a mosquito-borne infectious disease of humans and other animals caused by eukaryotic protists of the genus Plasmodium. The disease results from the multiplication of Plasmodium parasites within red blood cells, causing symptoms that typically include fever and headache, in severe cases...
   
    Eradication.
7. Retirement of President Dr.Rajendra Prasad
   Rajendra Prasad
   Dr. Rajendra Prasad was an Indian politician and educator. He was one of the architects of the Indian Republic, having drafted its first constitution and serving as the first president of independent India...
   
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8. Centenary of High Courts of India
   High Courts of India
   India's unitary judicial system is made up of the Supreme Court of India at the national level, for the entire country and the 21 High Courts at the State level. These courts have jurisdiction over a state, a union territory or a group of states and union territories...
   
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9. Birth Centenary of Ramabai Ranade
   Ramabai Ranade
   Ramabai Ranade was an Indian womens' rights activist.After marrying Justice Mahadev Govind Ranade, Ramabai studied Marathi and English. Inspired by her husband, she started 'Hindu Ladies Social Club' in Mumbai to develop public speaking among women. Ramabai was also the president of Seva Sadan...
   
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10. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
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11. 19th International Congress of Ophthalmology, New Delhi.
12. 75th Birth Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan
    Srinivasa Ramanujan
    Srīnivāsa Aiyangār Rāmānujan FRS, better known as Srinivasa Iyengar Ramanujan was a Indian mathematician and autodidact who, with almost no formal training in pure mathematics, made extraordinary contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series and continued fractions...
    
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1963

1. Birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda
   Swami Vivekananda
   Swami Vivekananda , born Narendranath Dutta , was the chief disciple of the 19th century mystic Ramakrishna Paramahansa and the founder of the Ramakrishna Math and the Ramakrishna Mission...
   
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2. Provisional issue.
3. Freedom from Hunger
   Hunger
   Hunger is the most commonly used term to describe the social condition of people who frequently experience the physical sensation of desiring food.-Malnutrition, famine, starvation:...
   
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4. Red Cross Centenary.
5. Defence Campaign.
6. Dr.Dadabhoy Naoroji.
7. Dr.Annie Besant
   Annie Besant
   Annie Besant was a prominent British Theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self rule.She was married at 19 to Frank Besant but separated from him over religious differences. She then became a prominent speaker for the National Secular Society ...
   
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8. Wild Life
   Wildlife
   Wildlife includes all non-domesticated plants, animals and other organisms. Domesticating wild plant and animal species for human benefit has occurred many times all over the planet, and has a major impact on the environment, both positive and negative....
   
    Preservation.
9. National Children's Day
   Children's Day
   "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
   
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10. 15th Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights
    Human rights
    Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
    
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1964

1. 26th International Orientalists Congress, New Delhi.
2. Pandit Gopabandhu Das
   Gopabandhu Das
   Gopabandhu Dash known as Utkalamani was a social worker who excelled in the field of politics as well as literature.-Early life : The revolutionary student:...
   
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3. 400th Death Anniversary of Purandaradasa.
4. 67th Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose.
5. 85th Birth Anniversary of Sarojini Naidu
   Sarojini Naidu
   Sarojini Naidu , also known by the sobriquet The Nightingale of India, was a child prodigy, Indian independence activist and poet...
   
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6. 20th Death Anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi
   Kasturba Gandhi
   Kastürbā Gāndhi was the wife of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, marrying him in an arranged marriage in 1883.-Early life and background:...
   
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7. Dr.Waldermar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine.
8. Birth Centenary of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee.
9. 92nd Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo.
10. Raja Rammohun Roy.
11. 6th General Assembly of International Organisation for Standardisation, New Delhi.
12. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
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13. St. Thomas
    Thomas the Apostle
    Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for questioning Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in . He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman...
    
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14. 22nd International Geological Congress, New Delhi.

1965

1. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
2. Birth Centenary of Lala Lajpat Rai
   Lala Lajpat Rai
   Lala Lajpat Rai was an Indian author, freedom fighter and politician who is chiefly remembered as a leader in the Indian fight for freedom from the British Raj. He was popularly known as Punjab Kesari or Sher-e-Punjab meaning the samem and was part of the Lal Bal Pal trio...
   
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3. 20th International Chamber of Commerce Congress, New Delhi.
4. Indian Shipping.
5. Death Centenary of Abraham Lincoln
   Abraham Lincoln
   Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
   
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6. Centenary of International Telecommunication Union
   International Telecommunication Union
   The International Telecommunication Union is the specialized agency of the United Nations which is responsible for information and communication technologies...
   
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7. First Anniversary of Nehru's Death.
8. International Co-operation Year.
9. Indian Mount Everest
   Mount Everest
   Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...
   
    Expedition.
10. Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant
    Govind Ballabh Pant
    Bharat Ratna Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant was a statesman of India, an Indian independence activist, and one of the foremost political leaders from Uttarakhand and of the movement to establish Hindi as the official language of India.-Early life:Govind Ballabh Pant was born on September 10, 1887 in...
    
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11. 90th Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
12. 95th Birth Anniversary of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das
    Chittaranjan Das
    Chittaranjan Das was an eminent Bengali lawyer and a major figure in the Indian independence movement.-Personal life:...
    
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13. Vidyapati
    Vidyapati
    Vidyapati Thakur , also known by the sobriquet Maithil Kavi Kokil was a Maithili poet and a Sanskrit writer. He was born in the village of Bishphi in Madhubani district of Bihar state, India. He was son of Ganapati...
    
     Thakur.

1966

1. 15th Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, New Delhi.
2. Valour of Indian Armed Forces in 1965 war.
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri
   Lal Bahadur Shastri
   Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...
   
    Mourning issue.
4. Kambar
5. 75th Birth Anniversary of Dr.Binayak Rao Ambedkar
   B. R. Ambedkar
   Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
   
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6. Babu Kunwar Singh.
7. Birth Centenary of Gopal Krishna Gokhale
   Gopal Krishna Gokhale
   Gopal Krishna Gokhale, CIE was one of the founding social and political leaders during the Indian Independence Movement against the British Empire in India. Gokhale was a senior leader of the Indian National Congress and founder of the Servants of India Society...
   
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8. Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi.
9. Maharaja Ranjit Singh
   Ranjit Singh
   Maharaja Ranjit Singh Ji was the first Maharaja of the Sikh Empire.-Early life:...
   
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10. Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
11. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    Maulana Abul Kalam Azad
    Maulana Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Ahmed was an Indian Muslim scholar and a senior political leader of the Indian independence movement, who lived from 11 November 1888 – 22 February 1958. He was one of the most prominent Muslim leaders to support Hindu-Muslim unity, opposing the partition of India on...
    
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12. 60th Death Anniversary of Swami Rama Tirtha
    Swami Rama Tirtha
    Swami Ram Tirth , also known as Swami Ram, was an Indian teacher of the Hindu philosophy of Vedanta. He was among the first notable teachers of Hinduism to lecture in the United States, traveling there in 1902. He was preceded by Swami Vivekananda in 1893, and followed by Paramahansa Yogananda in...
    
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13. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
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14. Centenary of Allahabad High Court
    Allahabad High Court
    The Allahabad High Court or the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad is a high court having jurisdiction over the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh since 1950...
    
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15. Family Planning
    Family planning
    Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and...
    
     Week.
16. India's Hockey
    Field hockey
    Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
    
     Victory in 5th Asian Games
    Asian Games
    The Asian Games, officially known as Asiad, is a multi-sport event held every four years among athletes from all over Asia. The Games were regulated by the Asian Games Federation from the first Games in New Delhi, India, until the 1978 Games. Since the 1982 Games they have been organised by the...
    
    , Bangkok
    Bangkok
    Bangkok is the capital and largest urban area city in Thailand. It is known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon or simply Krung Thep , meaning "city of angels." The full name of Bangkok is Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahintharayutthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom...
    
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1967

1. First Death Anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri
   Lal Bahadur Shastri
   Lal Bahadur Srivastava Shastri was the second Prime Minister of the Republic of India and a significant figure in the Indian independence movement.-Early life:...
   
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2. 4th Indian General Election
   Election
   An election is a formal decision-making process by which a population chooses an individual to hold public office. Elections have been the usual mechanism by which modern representative democracy operates since the 17th century. Elections may fill offices in the legislature, sometimes in the...
   
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3. 300th Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh
   Guru Gobind Singh
   Guru Gobind Singh is the tenth and last Sikh guru in a sacred lineage of ten Sikh gurus. Born in Patna, Bihar in India, he was also a warrior, poet and philosopher. He succeeded his father Guru Tegh Bahadur as the leader of Sikhs at a young age of nine...
   
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4. International Tourist Year.
5. First Death Anniversary of Acharya Nandalal Bose
   Nandalal Bose
   Nandalal Bose was a notable Indian painter of Bengal school of art. A pupil of Abanindranath Tagore, Bose was known for "Indian style" of painting. He became the principal of Kala Bhawan, Shanti Niketan in 1922...
   
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6. Survey of India
   Survey of India
   The Survey of India is India's central engineering agency in charge of mapping and surveying. Set up in 1767 to help consolidate the territories of the British East India Company, it is one of the oldest Engineering Departments of the Government of India...
   
    Bicentenary.
7. 800th Death Anniversary of Basaveswara
   Basava
   Basava was a philosopher and a social reformer. He is also called Vishwa Guru and Bhakti-Bhandari. His teachings and preachings which are universal, go beyond all boundaries of belief systems...
   
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8. Narsinha Mehta.
9. Narayana Guru
   Narayana Guru
   Sri Nārāyana Guru , also known as Sree Nārāyana Guru Swami, was a Hindu saint, sadhuand social reformer of India. The Guru was born into an Ezhava family, in an era when people from backward communities like the Ezhavas faced much social injustices in the caste-ridden Kerala society...
   
   .
10. Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
    Sir Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan , OM, FBA was an Indian philosopher and statesman. He was the first Vice President of India and subsequently the second President of India ....
    
    .
11. 25th Anniversary of Quit India Movement
    Quit India Movement
    The Quit India Movement , or the August Movement was a civil disobedience movement launched in India in August 1942 in response to Mohandas Gandhi's call for immediate independence. Gandhi hoped to bring the British government to the negotiating table...
    
    .
12. Centenary of Indo-European Telegraph Service.
13. World Wrestling
    Wrestling
    Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position...
    
     Championships, New Delhi.
14. 4th Anniversary of Statehood of Nagaland
    Nagaland
    Nagaland is a state in the far north-eastern part of India. It borders the state of Assam to the west, Arunachal Pradesh and part of Assam to the north, Burma to the east and Manipur to the south. The state capital is Kohima, and the largest city is Dimapur...
    
    .
15. Rashbehari Basu.
16. Diamond Jubilee of Scout Movement in India.

1968

1. International Year for Human Rights
   Human rights
   Human rights are "commonly understood as inalienable fundamental rights to which a person is inherently entitled simply because she or he is a human being." Human rights are thus conceived as universal and egalitarian . These rights may exist as natural rights or as legal rights, in both national...
   
   .
2. 2nd International Conference-Seminar of Tamil
   Tamil people
   Tamil people , also called Tamils or Tamilians, are an ethnic group native to Tamil Nadu, India and the north-eastern region of Sri Lanka. Historic and post 15th century emigrant communities are also found across the world, notably Malaysia, Singapore, Mauritius, South Africa, Australia, Canada,...
   
    Studies, Madras.
3. 2nd United Nations
   United Nations
   The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
   
    Conference on Trade and Development, New Delhi.
4. Amrita Bazar Patrika
   Amrita Bazar Patrika
   Amrita Bazar Patrika was one of the oldest newspapers in India; it is written Bengali . It debuted on 20 February 1868. It was started by Sisir Ghosh and Moti Lal Ghosh, sons of Hari Naryan Ghose, a rich merchant from Magur, in District Jessore, in Bengal Province of British Empire in India. The...
   
    Centenary.
5. Birth Centenary of Maxim Gorky
   Maxim Gorky
   Alexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
   
   .
6. First Triennale, New Delhi.
7. Opening of 1,00,000th Post Office
   Post office
   A post office is a facility forming part of a postal system for the posting, receipt, sorting, handling, transmission or delivery of mail.Post offices offer mail-related services such as post office boxes, postage and packaging supplies...
   
    at Brahmpur Chaurasta, Bihar.
8. Wheat
   Wheat
   Wheat is a cereal grain, originally from the Levant region of the Near East, but now cultivated worldwide. In 2007 world production of wheat was 607 million tons, making it the third most-produced cereal after maize and rice...
   
    Revolution.
9. 30th Death Anniversary of Gaganendranath Tagore
   Gaganendranath Tagore
   See Tagore for disambiguationGaganendranath Tagore was an Indian painter and cartoonist of the Bengal school. He belongs to the Tagore family and was born at Jorasanko.-Early life:Gaganendranath Tagore was born in Calcutta...
   
   .
10. Birth Centenary of Lakshminath Bezbaruah.
11. XIX Olympic Games
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
    
    , Mexico City.
12. 61st Birth Anniversary of Bhagat Singh.
13. 25th Anniversary of Azad Hind Government.
14. Birth Centenary of Sister Nivedita
    Sister Nivedita
    - A benediction to Sister Nivedita by Swami Vivekananda Sister Nivedita ; ; , born as Margaret Elizabeth Noble, was a Scots-Irish social worker, author, teacher and disciple of Swami Vivekananda. She met Vivekananda in 1895 in London and travelled to Calcutta, India in 1898...
    
    .
15. Birth Centenary of Madame Marie Curie
    Marie Curie
    Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
    
    .
16. 21st International Geographical Congress, New Delhi.
17. 400th Anniversary of Cochin Synagogue.
18. I.N.S.Nilgiri.
19. Indian Bird
    Bird
    Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
    
    s.

1969

1. 130th Birth Anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
2. Birth Centenary of Dr.Bhagavan Das.
3. Dr.Martin Luther King.
4. Death Anniversary of Mirza Ghalib
   Mirza Ghalib
   Dabir-ul-Mulk, Najm-ud-Daula Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan , pen-name Ghalib and Asad , was a classical Urdu and Persian poet from India during British colonial rule...
   
   .
5. 50th Anniversary of Osmania University
   Osmania University
   Osmania University , , since 1918, is a public university located in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. It was established and named after the last Nizam of Hyderabad, Mir Osman Ali Khan. It is one of the oldest modern universities in India. It is the first Indian University to have Urdu and...
   
   .
6. 20th Anniversary of 'ALL UP' Air Mail Scheme.
7. 50th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation.
8. 50th Anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh
   Jallianwala Bagh
   Jallianwala Bagh is a public garden in Amritsar in the Punjab province of India, and houses a memorial of national importance, established in 1951 to commemorate the murder of peaceful celebrators on the occasion of the Punjabi New Year on April 13, 1919 in the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre...
   
    Massacre, Amritsar.
9. Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao
   Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao
   Kasinadhuni Nageswararao , better known as Nageswara rao pantulu was rare combination of a journalist, nationalist, politician, a staunch supporter of Khaddar movement and an enthusiastic pioneer in library movement in Andhra. His participation in Indian independence movement and in Indian...
   
    Pantulu.
10. Ardaseer Cursetjee
    Ardaseer Cursetjee
    Ardaseer Cursetjee FRS was an Indian shipbuilder and engineer.He is noted for having been the first Indian to be elected a Fellow of the Royal Society...
    
     Wadia.
11. 150th Anniversary of Serampore College
    Serampore College
    Serampore College is located in Serampore Town, in Hooghly District, West Bengal, India.The college consists of two entities:*The theological faculty*A separate college with faculties of arts, science, commerce...
    
    , West Bengal
    West Bengal
    West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
    
    .
12. Dr.Zakir Hussain
    Zakir Hussain (politician)
    Dr. Zakir Hussain , was the third President of India from 13 May 1967 until his death on 3 May 1969. He was the first elected Muslim president of India....
    
    .
13. Birth Centenary of Laxmanrao Kirloskar
    Laxmanrao Kirloskar
    Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar was an Indian businessman. He was the founder of the Kirloskar Group.In 1888, he set up his first venture - a small bicycle repair shop at Belgaum...
    
    .
14. Birth Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi , pronounced . 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the pre-eminent political and ideological leader of India during the Indian independence movement...
    
    .
15. 10th Anniversary of Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Oraganization.
16. 57th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi.
17. First Man on the Moon
    Moon
    The Moon is Earth's only known natural satellite,There are a number of near-Earth asteroids including 3753 Cruithne that are co-orbital with Earth: their orbits bring them close to Earth for periods of time but then alter in the long term . These are quasi-satellites and not true moons. For more...
    
    .
18. 500th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.
19. International Union for the Conservation of Nature
    Nature
    Nature, in the broadest sense, is equivalent to the natural world, physical world, or material world. "Nature" refers to the phenomena of the physical world, and also to life in general...
    
     and Natural Resources Conference, New Delhi.
20. 90th Birth Anniversary of Sadhu Vaswani.
21. Birth Centenary of Thakkar Bapa
    Thakkar Bapa
    Amritlal Vithaldas Thakkar, popularly known as Thakkar Bapa was an Indian social worker who worked for upliftment of tribal people in Gujarat state in India. He became a member of the Servants of India Society founded by Gopal Krishna Gokhale in 1914. In 1922, he founded the Bhil Seva Mandal...
    
    .

1970

1. 12th Plenary Assembly of International Radio
   Radio
   Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
   
    Consultative Committee (CCIR).
2. First Death Anniversary of Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai
   Annadurai
   Annadurai can refer to:* C. N. Annadurai, an Indian politician* Mylswamy Annadurai, an Indian scientist...
   
   .
3. 75th Death Anniversary of Munshi Newal Kishore
   Munshi Newal Kishore
   Munshi Newal Kishore was a book publisher from India.He has been called Caxton of India. In 1858, at the age of 22, he founded the 'Newal Kishore Press and Book Depot' at Lucknow. This institution today is the oldest printing and publishing concern in Asia. Mirza Ghalib was one of his admirers...
   
   .
4. Centenary of Nalanda College
   Nalanda College
   Nalanda College is a Buddhist school in Colombo, Sri Lanka. The college was established by P. de S...
   
   .
5. Swami Shraddhanand
   Swami Shraddhanand
   Swami Shraddhanand was an Indian educationist and an Arya Samaj missionary who propagated the teachings of Swami Dayanand. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played a key role on the Sangathan and the Shuddhi a Hindu reform...
   
   .
6. Birth Centenary of Vladimir Illyich Lenin.
7. New Universal Postal Union
   Universal Postal Union
   The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
   
    Headquarters Building, Berne.
8. 425th Death Anniversary of Sher Shah Suri
   Sher Shah Suri
   Sher Shah Suri , birth name Farid Khan, also known as Sher Khan , was the founder of the short-lived Sur Empire in northern India, with its capital at Delhi, before its demise in the hands of the resurgent Mughal Empire...
   
   .
9. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
10. 25th Anniversary of United Nations Organisation.
11. Asian Productivity Year.
12. International Education Year (Birth Centenary of Dr.Maria Montessori
    Maria Montessori
    Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator, a noted humanitarian and devout Catholic best known for the philosophy of education which bears her name...
    
    ).
13. Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin
    Bagha Jatin
    Bagha Jatin , born Jatindranath Mukherjee was an Bengali revolutionary philosopher against British rule....
    
    ).
14. Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri.
15. 150th Birth Anniversary of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
16. Maharsi Valmiki
    Valmiki
    Valmiki is celebrated as the poet harbinger in Sanskrit literature. He is the author of the epic Ramayana, based on the attribution in the text of the epic itself. He is revered as the Adi Kavi, which means First Poet, for he discovered the first śloka i.e...
    
     (Author of Epic Ramayana
    Ramayana
    The Ramayana is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is ascribed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon , considered to be itihāsa. The Ramayana is one of the two great epics of India and Nepal, the other being the Mahabharata...
    
    ).
17. Centenary of Calcutta Port Commissioner.
18. 50th Anniversary of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi.
19. Jamnalal Bajaj
    Jamnalal Bajaj
    Jamnalal Bajaj was an Indian industrialist, a philanthropist, and Indian independence fighter. He was also a close associate and follower of Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is known to have adopted him as his son. Several institutions in India bears his name, including the Jamnalal Bajaj Institute of...
    
    .
20. 50th Anniversary of Indian Red Cross Society.
21. 700th Birth Anniversary of Sant Namdeo
    Namdev
    Sant Namdeo or Bhagat Namdeo was born on October 29, 1270 in the state of Maharashtra village of Narasi-Bamani, in Hingoli district . His father, a calico printer/tailor, was named Damshet and his mother's name was Gonabai...
    
    .
22. Birth Bicentenary of Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. A crucial figure in the transition between the Classical and Romantic eras in Western art music, he remains one of the most famous and influential composers of all time.Born in Bonn, then the capital of the Electorate of Cologne and part of...
    
    .
23. India National Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
    
    .
24. Diamond Jubilee of Girl Guide Movement in India.

1971

1. Centenary of Indian Life Insurance
   Life insurance
   Life insurance is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money upon the death of the insured person. Depending on the contract, other events such as terminal illness or critical illness may also trigger...
   
   .
2. Golden Jubilee of Kashi Vidyapeeth.
3. Sant Ravidas.
4. Birth Centenary of Deenabandhu Charles Freer Andrews
   Charles Freer Andrews
   Charles Freer Andrews was an English priest of the Church of England. He was an educator and participant in the campaign for Indian independence, and became Mahatma Gandhi's closest friend and associate....
   
   .
5. 15th Death Anniversary of Acharya Narendra Deo.
6. Census
   Census
   A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population. The term is used mostly in connection with national population and housing censuses; other common...
   
    Centenary.
7. Sri Ramana Maharshi
   Ramana Maharshi
   Sri Ramana Maharshi , born Venkataraman Iyer, was a Hindu spiritual master . He was born to a Tamil-speaking Brahmin family in Tiruchuzhi, Tamil Nadu. After experiencing at age 16 what he later described as liberation , he left home for Arunachala, a mountain considered sacred by Hindus...
   
   .
8. 65th Death Anniversary of Raja Ravi Varma
   Raja Ravi Varma
   Raja Ravi Varma was an Indian painter from the princely state of Travancore who achieved recognition for his depiction of scenes from the epics of the Mahabharata and Ramayana...
   
   .
9. Birth Centenary of Dadasaheb Phalke
   Dadasaheb Phalke
   Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the father of Indian cinema...
   
   .
10. Birth Centenary of Abanindranath Tagore
    Abanindranath Tagore
    Abanindranath Tagore was the principal artist of the Bengal school and the first major exponent of swadeshi values in Indian art. He was also a noted writer, particularly for children...
    
    .
11. Swami Virjanand.
12. 2,500th Anniversary of Charter of Cyrus the Great
    Cyrus the Great
    Cyrus II of Persia , commonly known as Cyrus the Great, also known as Cyrus the Elder, was the founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Under his rule, the empire embraced all the previous civilized states of the ancient Near East, expanded vastly and eventually conquered most of Southwest Asia and much...
    
    .
13. World Thrift Day.
14. 25th Anniversary United Nations Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO
    UNESCO
    The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations...
    
    ).
15. National Children's Day.
16. 1st Death Anniversary of Dr.Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
    Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman
    Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, FRS was an Indian physicist whose work was influential in the growth of science in the world. He was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1930 for the discovery that when light traverses a transparent material, some of the light that is deflected...
    
    .
17. Golden Jubilee of Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal
    West Bengal
    West Bengal is a state in the eastern region of India and is the nation's fourth-most populous. It is also the seventh-most populous sub-national entity in the world, with over 91 million inhabitants. A major agricultural producer, West Bengal is the sixth-largest contributor to India's GDP...
    
    .
18. Indian Cricket
    Indian cricket team
    The Indian cricket team is the national cricket team of India. Governed by the Board of Control for Cricket in India , it is a full member of the International Cricket Council with Test and One Day International status....
    
     Victories against West Indies and England.

1972

1. First Anniversary of Arvi Satellite
   Satellite
   In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
   
    Earth Station.
2. Silver Jubilee of Indian Standards Institute (ISI).
3. 50th Anniversary of International Union of Railways.
4. XX Olympic Games
   Olympic Games
   The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
   
   , Munich
   Munich
   Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
   
   .
5. Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo.
6. 25th Anniversary of Independence
   Independence
   Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory....
   
   .
7. Greetings to Armed Forces
   Armed Forces
   Armed Forces is Elvis Costello's third album, his second with the Attractions, and the first to officially credit the Attractions on the cover. It was released in the UK by Radar Records and in the U.S. by Columbia in 1979...
   
    on Silver Jubilee of Independence.
8. Birth Centenary of Bhai Vir Singh
   Bhai Vir Singh
   Vir Singh was a poet, scholar and theologian and a figure in the movement for the revival and renewal of Punjabi literary tradition....
   
   .
9. Birth Centenary of Tanguturi Prakasham.
10. 300th Birth Anniversary of Vemana
    Vemana
    Kumaragiri Vema Reddy popularly known as Vemana was a 14th century Telugu poet. His poems were written in the popular vernacular of Telugu, and are known for their use of simple language and native idioms. His poems discuss the subjects of Yoga, wisdom and morality...
    
    .
11. Birth Centenary of Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Russell
    Bertrand Arthur William Russell, 3rd Earl Russell, OM, FRS was a British philosopher, logician, mathematician, historian, and social critic. At various points in his life he considered himself a liberal, a socialist, and a pacifist, but he also admitted that he had never been any of these things...
    
    .
12. Asia-72: 3rd Asian International Trade Fair, New Delhi.
13. First Death Anniversary of Dr.Vikram Sarabhai
    Vikram Sarabhai
    Vikram Ambalal Sarabhai was an Indian physicist. He is considered to be the father of the Indian space program; legendary Homi Bhabha’s successor as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission; and was as at home in the world of the arts as in his favourite laboratory. His interests were vast and...
    
    .
14. 50th Anniversary of USSR.
15. international union of railways india

1973

1. 'INDIPEX 73', International Stamp Exhibition, New Delhi
   New Delhi
   New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
   
   .
2. 25th Anniversary of Independence
   Independence
   Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory....
   
   .
3. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
4. First Anniversary of Army Postal Service Corps.
5. 'Jai Bangla', Inauguration of First Bangladesh
   Bangladesh
   Bangladesh , officially the People's Republic of Bangladesh is a sovereign state located in South Asia. It is bordered by India on all sides except for a small border with Burma to the far southeast and by the Bay of Bengal to the south...
   
    Parliament.
6. Birth Centenary of Kumaran Asan
   Kumaran Asan
   N. Kumaran Asan , also known as Mahakavi Kumaran Asan , was one of the triumvirate poets of Kerala, South India...
   
   .
7. Homage to Martyrs for Independence
   Independence
   Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory....
   
   .
8. Dr.Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
   B. R. Ambedkar
   Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar , popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, political leader, philosopher, thinker, anthropologist, historian, orator, prolific writer, economist, scholar, editor, a revolutionary and one of the founding fathers of independent India. He was also the Chairman...
   
   .
9. Indian Miniature Painting
   Painting
   Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
   
   s.
10. 15th Anniversary of Indian Mountaineering
    Mountaineering
    Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...
    
     Foundation, New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
    
    .
11. 25th Anniversary of Air India
    Air India
    Air India is the flag carrier airline of India. It is part of the government of India owned Air India Limited . The airline operates a fleet of Airbus and Boeing aircraft serving Asia, Australia, Europe and North America. Its corporate office is located at the Air India Building at Nariman...
    
    's International Services.
12. 19th Death Anniversary of St. Thomas
    Thomas the Apostle
    Thomas the Apostle, also called Doubting Thomas or Didymus was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. He is best known for questioning Jesus' resurrection when first told of it, then proclaiming "My Lord and my God" on seeing Jesus in . He was perhaps the only Apostle who went outside the Roman...
    
    .
13. Death Centenary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt
    Michael Madhusudan Dutt
    Michael Madhusudan Dutt or Michael Madhusudan Dutta was a popular 19th century Bengali poet and dramatist. He was born in Sagardari , on the bank of Kopotaksho [কপোতাক্ষ] River, a village in Keshobpur Upozila, Jessore District, East Bengal . His father was Rajnarayan Dutt, an eminent lawyer, and...
    
    .
14. Birth Centenary of Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
    Vishnu Digambar Paluskar
    Pandit Vishnu Digambar Paluskar was a Hindustani musician. He sung the original version of the bhajan Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram.-Early life and background:...
    
    .
15. Centenary of Discovery of Leprosy
    Leprosy
    Leprosy or Hansen's disease is a chronic disease caused by the bacteria Mycobacterium leprae and Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Named after physician Gerhard Armauer Hansen, leprosy is primarily a granulomatous disease of the peripheral nerves and mucosa of the upper respiratory tract; skin lesions...
    
     Bacillus.
16. 5th Birth Centenary of Nicolaus Copernicus.
17. Allan Octavian Hume
    Allan Octavian Hume
    Allan Octavian Hume was a civil servant, political reformer and amateur ornithologist in British India. He was one of the founders of the Indian National Congress, a political party that was later to lead the Indian independence movement...
    
    .
18. Homage to Gandhi and Nehru on 25th Anniversary of Independence
    Independence
    Independence is a condition of a nation, country, or state in which its residents and population, or some portion thereof, exercise self-government, and usually sovereignty, over its territory....
    
    .
19. Romesh Chunder Dutt
    Romesh Chunder Dutt
    Romesh Chunder Dutt, CIE was an Indian civil servant, economic historian, writer, and translator of Ramayana and Mahabharata.- Formative years :...
    
    .
20. K.S.Ranjitsinhji.
21. Birth Centenary of Vithalbhai Patel
    Vithalbhai Patel
    Vithalbhai Patel was an Indian legislator and political leader, and co-founder of the Swaraj Party.-Early life:Born in Nadiad, in the Indian state of Gujarat, Vithalbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was the third of five Patel brothers, four years elder to Vallabhbhai Patel, raised in the village of Karamsad...
    
    .
22. Bicentenary of President's Bodyguard.
23. 50th Anniversary of Interpol
    Interpol
    Interpol, whose full name is the International Criminal Police Organization – INTERPOL, is an organization facilitating international police cooperation...
    
     (International Criminal Police Organisation).
24. Syed Ahmad Khan.
25. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
    .
26. 'INDIPEX - 73', India International Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi.
27. Silver Jubilee of National Cadet Corps
    National Cadet Corps (India)
    The National Cadet Corps is the Indian military cadet corps with its Headquarters at New Delhi. It is open to school and college students on voluntary basis....
    
    , (NCC).
28. First Death Anniversary of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.

1974

1. Indian Mask
   Mask
   A mask is an article normally worn on the face, typically for protection, disguise, performance or entertainment. Masks have been used since antiquity for both ceremonial and practical purposes...
   
   s used in Dance Drama.
2. 300th Anniversary of Coronation of Chatrapati Shri Shivaji Maharaj.
3. Maithili Sharan Gupta.
4. Jainarain Vyas.
5. Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das
   Madhusudan Das
   Utkal Gourav Madhusudan Das was born on 28 April 1848 in a village called Satyabhamapur, 20 kilometres from Cuttack, Orissa. He was the first Graduate and Advocate of Orissa.-Family:...
   
   
6. Kandukuri Veeresalingam
   Kandukuri Veeresalingam
   Rao Bahadur Kandukuri Veeresalingam , also known as Kandukuri Veeresalingham Pantulu , was a social reformer of Andhra Pradesh. He was born in an orthodox Niyogi Telugu Brahmin family...
   
   .
7. Tipu Sultan
   Tipu Sultan
   Tipu Sultan , also known as the Tiger of Mysore, was the de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore. He was the son of Hyder Ali, at that time an officer in the Mysorean army, and his second wife, Fatima or Fakhr-un-Nissa...
   
   .
8. Max Müller
   Max Müller
   Friedrich Max Müller , more regularly known as Max Müller, was a German philologist and Orientalist, one of the founders of the western academic field of Indian studies and the discipline of comparative religion...
   
   .
9. 75th Birth Anniversary of Kamala Nehru
   Kamala Nehru
   Kamala Kaul Nehru was the wife of Jawaharlal Nehru - leader of the Indian National Congress and first Prime Minister of India. Kamala married Nehru on 7 February 1916.-Contribution to the Indian Freedom Movement:...
   
   .
10. World Population
    Population
    A population is all the organisms that both belong to the same group or species and live in the same geographical area. The area that is used to define a sexual population is such that inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with individuals...
    
     Year.
11. Varahagiri Venkata Giri.
12. Centenary of Universal Postal Union
    Universal Postal Union
    The Universal Postal Union is an international organization that coordinates postal policies among member nations, in addition to the worldwide postal system. The UPU contains four bodies consisting of the Congress, the Council of Administration , the Postal Operations Council and the...
    
    .
13. Centenary of Mathura museum
    Mathura Museum
    Mathura museum is an archaeological museum in Mathura city of Uttar Pradesh state in India. The museum was founded by then collector of the Mathura district, Sir F.S Growse in 1874...
    
    .
14. Birth Centenary of Nicholas Roerich
    Nicholas Roerich
    Nicholas Roerich, also known as Nikolai Konstantinovich Rerikh , was a Russian mystic, painter, philosopher, scientist, writer, traveler, and public figure. A prolific artist, he created thousands of paintings and about 30 literary works...
    
    .
15. 2500th Anniversary of Bhagwan Mahavira
    Mahavira
    Mahāvīra is the name most commonly used to refer to the Indian sage Vardhamāna who established what are today considered to be the central tenets of Jainism. According to Jain tradition, he was the 24th and the last Tirthankara. In Tamil, he is referred to as Arukaṉ or Arukadevan...
    
    's attainment of Nirvana
    Nirvana
    Nirvāṇa ; ) is a central concept in Indian religions. In sramanic thought, it is the state of being free from suffering. In Hindu philosophy, it is the union with the Supreme being through moksha...
    
    .
16. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
    .
17. 25th Anniversary of UNICEF in India.
18. 25th Anniversary of Indian Territorial Army
    Indian Territorial Army
    The Territorial Army in India is an organization of volunteers who receive military training for a few days in a year so that in case of an emergency they can be mobilized for the defence of the country....
    
    .
19. 19th International Dairy Congress, New Delhi.
20. Help for Mentally Retarded Children.
21. Birth Centenary of Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi
    Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
    
    .
22. Saint Francis Xavier's Apostle Celebration.

1975

1. World Hindi
   Hindi
   Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...
   
    Convention, Nagpur
   Nagpur
   Nāgpur is a city and winter capital of the state of Maharashtra, the largest city in central India and third largest city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune...
   
   .
2. 25th Anniversary of the Republic
   Republic
   A republic is a form of government in which the people, or some significant portion of them, have supreme control over the government and where offices of state are elected or chosen by elected people. In modern times, a common simplified definition of a republic is a government where the head of...
   
   .
3. 33rd World Table Tennis
   Table tennis
   Table tennis, also known as ping-pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth using table tennis rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net...
   
    Championships, Calcutta.
4. International Women's Year.
5. Bicentenary of Indian Army
   Indian Army
   The Indian Army is the land based branch and the largest component of the Indian Armed Forces. With about 1,100,000 soldiers in active service and about 1,150,000 reserve troops, the Indian Army is the world's largest standing volunteer army...
   
    Ordnance Corps.
6. Centenary of Arya Samaj
   Arya Samaj
   Arya Samaj is a Hindu reform movement founded by Swami Dayananda on 10 April 1875. He was a sannyasi who believed in the infallible authority of the Vedas. Dayananda emphasized the ideals of brahmacharya...
   
   .
7. World Telugu Conference, Hyderabad.
8. Launch of First Indian Satellite
   Satellite
   In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
   
   .
9. Indian Bird
   Bird
   Birds are feathered, winged, bipedal, endothermic , egg-laying, vertebrate animals. Around 10,000 living species and 188 families makes them the most speciose class of tetrapod vertebrates. They inhabit ecosystems across the globe, from the Arctic to the Antarctic. Extant birds range in size from...
   
   s: Pitta brachyura, Oriolus xanthomus, Tragopan melanocephalus and Lophophorus impejamus.
10. 4th Centenary of Ramcharitmanas (epic poem by Tulsidas
    Tulsidas
    Tulsidas , was a Hindu poet-saint, reformer and philosopher renowned for his devotion for the god Rama...
    
    ).
11. Centenary of Indian Young Women's Christian Association
    Young Women's Christian Association
    Young Women's Christian Association or YWCA or YWCA Building or Old YWCA Building or variations may refer to:*World YWCA, the organization formerly known as Young Women's Christian Associationor it may refer to:...
    
     (YWCA
    YWCA
    The YWCA USA is the United States branch of a women's membership movement that strives to create opportunities for women's growth, leadership and power in order to attain a common vision—to eliminate racism and empower women. The YWCA is a non-profit organization, the first of which was founded in...
    
    ).
12. 500th Birth Anniversary of Michelangelo
    Michelangelo
    Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni , commonly known as Michelangelo, was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, poet, and engineer who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art...
    
     Buonarroti.
13. 25th Anniversary of International Commission on Irrigation
    Irrigation
    Irrigation may be defined as the science of artificial application of water to the land or soil. It is used to assist in the growing of agricultural crops, maintenance of landscapes, and revegetation of disturbed soils in dry areas and during periods of inadequate rainfall...
    
     and Drainage
    Drainage
    Drainage is the natural or artificial removal of surface and sub-surface water from an area. Many agricultural soils need drainage to improve production or to manage water supplies.-Early history:...
    
    .
14. Satellite Instructional Television
    Television
    Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
    
     Experiment.
15. 600th Birth Anniversary of Sant Arunagirinathar
    Arunagirinathar
    Arunagirinathar was Tamil poet who lived during the 15th century in Tamil Nadu, India. He was the creator of Tiruppugazh, a book of poems in Tamil in praise of the Hindu God Murugan. He was a member of the Isai Vellalar community....
    
    .
16. Namibia
    Namibia
    Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
    
     Day.
17. Mir Anees.
18. Ahilyabai Holkar
    Ahilyabai Holkar
    Punyashlok Rajmata Devi Ahilyabai Holkar , also known as the Philosopher Queen, was a Holkar dynasty Queen of the Malwa kingdom, India. She is often compared with Catherine II of Russia, Elizabeth I of England, Margaret I of Denmark...
    
    .
19. Indian Classical Dances: Bharata Natyam, Orissi, Kathak
    Kathak
    Kathak is one of the eight forms of Indian classical dances, originated from Uttar Pradesh, India. This dance form traces its origins to the nomadic bards of ancient northern India, known as Kathaks, or storytellers...
    
    , Kathakali
    Kathakali
    Kathakali is a highly stylized classical Indian dance-drama noted for the attractive make-up of characters, elaborate costumes, detailed gestures and well-defined body movements presented in tune with the anchor playback music and complementary percussion...
    
    , Kuchipudi
    Kuchipudi
    Kuchipudi is a Classical Indian dance form Andhra Pradesh, India. It is also popular all over South India. Kuchipudi is the name of a village in the Divi Taluka of Krishna district that borders the Bay of Bengal and with resident Brahmins practicing this traditional dance form, it acquired the...
    
     and Manipuri
    Manipuri dance
    Manipuri dance is one of the major Indian classical dance forms. It originates from Manipur, a state in north-eastern India on the border with Myanmar . In Manipur, surrounded by mountains and geographically isolated at the meeting point of the orient and mainland India, the form developed its own...
    
    .
20. Ameer Khusrau.
21. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon
    Krishna Menon
    Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon , commonly referred to as Krishna Menon, was an Indian nationalist, diplomat and statesman, described as the second most powerful man in India by Time Magazine and others, after his ally and intimate friend, Jawaharlal Nehru.Described as "vitriolic,...
    
    .
22. Bahadur Shah Zafar.
23. 21st Commonwealth
    Commonwealth
    Commonwealth is a traditional English term for a political community founded for the common good. Historically, it has sometimes been synonymous with "republic."More recently it has been used for fraternal associations of some sovereign nations...
    
     Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi
    New Delhi
    New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
    
    .
24. Birth Centenary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
    Vallabhbhai Jhaverbhai Patel was an Indian barrister and statesman, one of the leaders of the Indian National Congress and one of the founding fathers of India...
    
    .
25. Birth Centenary of Karmavir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi
    Nabin Chandra Bardoloi
    Nabin Chandra Bardoloi was a leader of congress party and an Indian independence activist. He was from Assam.The Government of India issued a postage stamp in his honour.-References:*Quit India Movement In Assam By Anil Kumar Sharma...
    
    .
26. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
    .
27. 50th Anniversary of India Security Press
    India Security Press
    India Security Press is a government press in India where items like passports, visas, postage stamps, post cards, inland letters, envelopes, non-postal adhesives, court fees, fiscal, and hundi stamps are printed. The press is located near Nashik city in Maharashtra state of India. The security...
    
    , Nasik.
28. Tercentenary of the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
29. Centenary of the Theosophical Society
    Theosophical Society
    The Theosophical Society is an organization formed in 1875 to advance the spiritual principles and search for Truth known as Theosophy. The original organization, after splits and realignments has several successors...
    
    .
30. Centenary of the Indian Meteorological Department.
31. 'INPEX-75' India National Philatelic Exhibition, Calcutta.

1976

1. First Death Anniversary of Lalit Narayan Mishra
   Lalit Narayan Mishra
   Lalit Narayan Mishra was railway minister of India from 1973 to 1975. He was brought into politics by the first Chief Minister of Bihar, Bihar Kesari Sri Krishna Sinha when he was made parliamentary secretary at his insistence to the First Prime Minister of India, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. In...
   
   .
2. Birth Centenary of Edward James (Jim) Corbett.
3. Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur
   Bharatpur, India
   Bharatpur is a city in the Indian state of Rajasthan. It was founded by Maharaja Suraj Mal in 1733. Located in the Brij region, Bharatpur was once an impregnable, well-planned and well-fortified city, and the capital of Jat kingdom ruled by Sinsinwar Maharajas.The trio of Bharatpur, Deeg and...
   
   .
4. Bicentenary of 16th Light Cavalry Regiment.
5. Alexander Graham Bell
   Alexander Graham Bell
   Alexander Graham Bell was an eminent scientist, inventor, engineer and innovator who is credited with inventing the first practical telephone....
   
   .
6. Birth Centenary of Muthuswami Dikshitar
   Muthuswami Dikshitar
   Muthuswami Dikshitar is a South Indian poet and composer and is one of the Musical Trinity of Carnatic music...
   
   .
7. World Health Day
   World Health Day
   World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April, under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization .In 1948, the World Health Organization held the First World Health Assembly. The Assembly decided to celebrate 7 April of each year, with effect from 1950, as the World Health Day...
   
   . Prevention of Blindness
   Blindness
   Blindness is the condition of lacking visual perception due to physiological or neurological factors.Various scales have been developed to describe the extent of vision loss and define blindness...
   
   .
8. Industrial Development.
9. Indian Locomotive
   Locomotive
   A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
   
   s.
10. Bicentenary of American Revolution
    American Revolution
    The American Revolution was the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which thirteen colonies in North America joined together to break free from the British Empire, combining to become the United States of America...
    
    .
11. Kumaraswamy Kamaraj.
12. XXI Olympic Games
    Olympic Games
    The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...
    
    , Montreal
    Montreal
    Montreal is a city in Canada. It is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest city in Canada and the seventh largest in North America...
    
    .
13. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
    Subhadra Kumari Chauhan
    Subhadra Kumari Chauhan was an Indian poetess famous for her emotionally charged Hindi songs.-Early life:Born in Nihalpur village in Allahabad District in Uttar Pradesh. She initially studied in the Crosthwaite Girls’ School in Allahabad and passed the middle-school examination in 1919...
    
    .
14. Param Vir Chakra
    Param Vir Chakra
    The Param Vir Chakra is India's highest military decoration awarded for the highest degree of valour or self-sacrifice in the presence of the enemy. It can be, and often has been, awarded posthumously....
    
     (Highest Gallantry Award).
15. 60th Anniversary of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University, Bombay.
16. Bharatendu Harishchandra
    Bharatendu Harishchandra
    Bharatendu Harishchandra is known as the father of modern Hindi literature as well as Hindi theatre. He is considered one of the greatest Hindi writers of modern India. A recognized poet, he was also a trend setter in Hindi prose-writing...
    
    .
17. Birth Centenary of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee.
18. Family Planning
    Family planning
    Family planning is the planning of when to have children, and the use of birth control and other techniques to implement such plans. Other techniques commonly used include sexuality education, prevention and management of sexually transmitted infections, pre-conception counseling and...
    
     Campaign.
19. Maharaja Agrasen.
20. Indian Wild Life: Swamp Deer, Indian Lion, Leopard
    Leopard
    The leopard , Panthera pardus, is a member of the Felidae family and the smallest of the four "big cats" in the genus Panthera, the other three being the tiger, lion, and jaguar. The leopard was once distributed across eastern and southern Asia and Africa, from Siberia to South Africa, but its...
    
     and Caracal
    Caracal
    The caracal is a fiercely territorial medium-sized cat ranging over Western Asia, South Asia and Africa.The word caracal comes from the Turkish word "karakulak", meaning "black ear". In North India and Pakistan, the caracal is locally known as syahgosh or shyahgosh, which is a Persian term...
    
    .
21. Voluntary Blood Donation
    Blood donation
    A blood donation occurs when a person voluntarily has blood drawn and used for transfusions or made into medications by a process called fractionation....
    
    .
22. Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
23. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
    .
24. Hiralal Shastri.
25. Dr.Hari Singh Gour
    Hari Singh Gour
    Hari Singh Gour , also known as Sir Hari Singh Gour and Dr. Hari Singh Gour, was a distinguished lawyer, jurist, educationist, social reformer, poet, and novelist. He was one of the greatest visionaries of education of this century on the Indian subcontinent and even on a global scale...
    
    .
26. Inauguration of Indian Airlines Airbus Service.
27. Diamond Jubilee of Coconut
    Coconut
    The coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, is a member of the family Arecaceae . It is the only accepted species in the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the entire coconut palm, the seed, or the fruit, which is not a botanical nut. The spelling cocoanut is an old-fashioned form of the word...
    
     Research.
28. Centenary of 'Vande Mataram
    Vande Mataram
    Vande Mataram is a poem from the famed novel Anandamath which was written by Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay in 1882. It was written in Bengali and Sanskrit....
    
    '.

1977

1. Sixth International Film Festival of India
   International Film Festival of India
   The International Film Festival of India , founded in 1952, is one of the most significant film festivals in Asia. Held annually in the beach town of Goa, in the Western Coast of the country, the festival aims at providing a common platform for the cinemas of the world to project the excellence of...
   
   , New Delhi.
2. Sixth World Conference of Earthquake Engineering
   Earthquake engineering
   Earthquake engineering is the scientific field concerned with protecting society, the natural and the man-made environment from earthquakes by limiting the seismic risk to socio-economically acceptable levels...
   
   , New Delhi.
3. Birth Centenary of Tarun Ram Phookun.
4. Paramahansa Yogananda
   Paramahansa Yogananda
   Paramahansa Yogananda , born Mukunda Lal Ghosh , was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a...
   
   .
5. First Asian Regional Red Cross Conference, New Delhi.
6. Death of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
   Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed
   Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed was the fifth President of India from 1974 to 1977.-Early life and background:Fakhruddin's grandfather, Khaliluddin Ali Ahmed, of Kacharighat near Golaghat, Assam, married in one of the families who were the relics of Emperor Aurangzeb's bid to conquer Assam Ahmed was born on...
   
   .
7. 15th Anniversary of Asian Oceanic Postal Union.
8. Birth Centenary of Narottam Morarjee
   Narottam Morarjee
   Narottam Morarjee was an eminent Indian businessperson with major interests in shipping. The Government of India issued a postage stamp in his honor in 1977....
   
   .
9. Makhanlal Chaturvedi
   Makhanlal Chaturvedi
   Pandit Makhanlal Chaturvedi , also called Panditji, was an Indian poet, writer, essayist, playwright and a journalist who is particularly remembered for his participation in India's national struggle for independence and his contribution to Chhayavaad , the Neo-romanticism movement of Hindi...
   
   .
10. Vallabhacharya.
11. 50th Anniversary of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
12. 5th World Environment Day.
13. 25th Anniversary of Rajya Sabha
    Rajya Sabha
    The Rajya Sabha or Council of States is the upper house of the Parliament of India. Rajya means "state," and Sabha means "assembly hall" in Sanskrit. Membership is limited to 250 members, 12 of whom are chosen by the President of India for their expertise in specific fields of art, literature,...
    
     (Upper House of Parliament).
14. Indian Flowers.
15. Centenary of Sound
    Sound
    Sound is a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure transmitted through a solid, liquid, or gas, composed of frequencies within the range of hearing and of a level sufficiently strong to be heard, or the sensation stimulated in organs of hearing by such vibrations.-Propagation of...
    
     Recording.
16. Birth Centenary of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.
17. 50th Death Anniversary of Ganga Ram.
18. 32nd International Homeopathic Congress.
19. Ram Manohar Lohia
    Ram Manohar Lohia
    Rammanohar Lohia was an Indian freedom fighter and a socialist political leader.-Early life:Lohia was born in a village Akbarpur in Ambedkar Nagar district, Uttar Pradesh, in India to Hira Lal, a nationalist and Chanda,a teacher. He was born to Marwari Maheshwari family. His mother died when he...
    
    .
20. 'INPEX-77', 3rd National Philatelic Exhibition, Bangalore.
21. 'ASIANA-77', First Asian International Philatelic Exhibition, Bangalore.
22. 15th International Congress of Pediatrics
    Pediatrics
    Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...
    
    , New Delhi.
23. Kittur Rani Channamma.
24. Union Public Service Commission
    Union Public Service Commission
    The Union Public Service Commission is the central agency authorized to conduct the Civil Services Examination for entry-level appointments to the various Civil Services of India. The agency's charter is granted by the Constitution of India...
    
    .
25. 'AGRIEXPO-77', Agriculture Exposition, New Delhi.
26. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
    .
27. Indian Personalities: J. Phooley and S. Bapat.
28. 41st Session of International Statistical Institute
    International Statistical Institute
    The International Statistical Institute is a professional association of statisticians. The Institut International de Statistique or International Statistical Institute was founded in 1885 although there had been international congresses from 1853.. The Institute publishes a variety of books and...
    
    , New Delhi.
29. Kamta Prasad Guru
    Kamta Prasad Guru
    Kamta Prasad Guru , was an expert on grammar of Hindi language. He was writer of the book "Hindi vyakarana". He was born in Sagar in Madhya Pradesh state in India. His Hindi grammar book has been translated into many foreign languages. Kamta Prasad Guru died in Jabalpur on November 16, 1947...
    
    .
30. 60th Year of October Revolution
    October Revolution
    The October Revolution , also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution , Red October, the October Uprising or the Bolshevik Revolution, was a political revolution and a part of the Russian Revolution of 1917...
    
    .

1978

1. Conquest of Kanchenjunga.
2. 27th Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, New Delhi.
3. World Book Fair, New Delhi.
4. Birth Centenary of The Mother, Pondicherry.
5. Fifth International Wheat Genetics Symposium, New Delhi.
6. Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi.
7. Surjya Sen.
8. Modern Indian Paintings.
9. 400th Birth Anniversary of Peter Paul Rubens.
10. Charles Spencer Chaplin.
11. Deendayal Upadhyaya
    Deendayal Upadhyaya
    Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya , along with Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee, was an important leader of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh, now the Bharatiya Janata Party.-Earlier Life and Education:...
    
    .
12. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.
13. Museum
    Museum
    A museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
    
    s of India.
14. Bhagawadgeeta.
15. Centenary of Bethune College
    Bethune College
    Bethune College is a women's college in India. It was founded as a school in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune and in 1879 developed as the first women's college in India. It is located at 181, Bidhan Sarani, Kolkata -700006, just opposite the current campus of Scottish Church College,...
    
    .
16. E.V.Ramasami.
17. Uday Shankar Chowdhury.
18. 150th Birth Anniversary of Leo Tolstoy
    Leo Tolstoy
    Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who primarily wrote novels and short stories. Later in life, he also wrote plays and essays. His two most famous works, the novels War and Peace and Anna Karenina, are acknowledged as two of the greatest novels of all time and a pinnacle of realist...
    
    .
19. Birth Centenary of Vallathol Narayana Menon
    Vallathol Narayana Menon
    Vallathol Narayana Menon , popularly known as Mahakavi, was one of the celebrity poets in Malayalam language, spoken in the South Indian state of Kerala. Vallathol was born in Chennara, near Tirur, in Malappuram District of Kerala state, southern India. Up to his 27 years he lived in Chennara and...
    
    .
20. National Children's Day
    Children's Day
    "Children Day", as an event, is celebrated on various days in many places around the world, in particular to honor children. Major global variants include a Universal Children's Day on November 20, by United Nations recommendation...
    
    .
21. National Small Industries Fair, New Delhi.
22. 175th Anniversary of Skinner's Horse (Cavalry regiment).
23. Birth Centenary of Mohammad Ali Jauhar.
24. Birth Centenary of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.
25. 75th Anniversary of Powered Flight.
26. Centenary of Ravenshaw College
    Ravenshaw College
    Ravenshaw College is located in Cuttack, India.The college was established in 1878 for Thomas Edward Ravenshaw, a descendant of William Withers...
    
    , Cuttack.
27. Death Anniversary of Franz Peter Schubert.

2011

Date	Description	Denomination (INR)
15th January 2011	DOOT	05.00
27th January 2011	KRISHNADEVARAYA Krishnadevaraya Śrī Kriṣhṇa Devarāya , , , and also known as Krishna Devarayulu in some inscriptions was the famed Emperor of the Vijayanagara Empire who reigned from 1509–1529 CE.He is the third ruler of the Tuluva Dynasty. Presiding over the empire at its zenith, he is regarded as an icon by many Indians...	05.00
01st February 2011	CH. RANBIR SINGH Ranbir Singh Hooda Ranbir Singh Hooda is well known in Haryana's Jat heartland for his role in India's freedom struggle as a leading member of the Indian National Congress....	05.00
02nd February 2011	MARY WARD-LORETO INSTITUTIONS Mary Ward (nun) The Venerable Mary Ward, I.B.V.M., was an English Catholic Religious Sister who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, also known as the Loreto Sisters...	05.00
04th February 2011	CORPS OF SIGNALS	05.00
07th February 2011	V SUBBIAH V. Subbiah V. Subbiah was an Indian communist politician from Pondicherry . Subbiah was the secretary of the Communist Party of French India. He is regarded as the founder of the trade union movement in the union territory...	05.00
08th February 2011	CENSUS OF INDIA 2011	05.00
11th February 2011	V VENKATASUBBA REDDIAR V. Venkatasubha Reddiar V. Venkatasubha Reddiar ) was the second Chief Minister of the Union Territory of Pondicherry . He served from September 11, 1964 to April 8, 1967 and March 6, 1968 to September 18, 1968.- Notes :...	05.00
12th February 2011	SPECIAL KHADI Khadi The term khādī or khaddar means cotton. khādī is Indian handspun and hand-woven cloth. The raw materials may be cotton, silk, or wool, which are spun into threads on a spinning wheel called a charkha. It is a versatile fabric, cool in the summer and warm in the winter...  STAMP Postage stamp A postage stamp is a small piece of paper that is purchased and displayed on an item of mail as evidence of payment of postage. Typically, stamps are made from special paper, with a national designation and denomination on the face, and a gum adhesive on the reverse side...  - MAHATMA GANDHI	100.00
12th February 2011	100 YEARS OF AIRMAIL Airmail Airmail is mail that is transported by aircraft. It typically arrives more quickly than surface mail, and usually costs more to send...	05.00
13th February 2011	LEELA NAIDU Leela Naidu Leela Naidu was an Indian actress who starred in a small number of Hindi and English films, including Yeh Raaste Hain Pyaar Ke , based on the real-life Nanavati case, and The Householder, Merchant Ivory Productions' first film...	05.00
13th February 2011	SAVITHRI	05.00
13th February 2011	NUTAN Nutan Nutan Behl , better known as Nutan , was an Indian actress. She appeared in more than 70 Hindi films in a career spanning over four decades...	05.00
13th February 2011	MEENA KUMARI Meena Kumari Meena Kumari , born Mahjabeen Bano, was an Indian movie actress and poetess. She is regarded as one of the most prominent actresses to have appeared on the screens of Hindi Cinema...	05.00
13th February 2011	KANAN DEVI Kanan Devi Kanan Devi was an Indian actress and singer. She was among the early singing stars of Indian cinema, and is credited popularly as the first star of Bengali Cinema...	05.00
13th February 2011	DEVIKA RANI Devika Rani Devika Rani Chaudhuri Roerich was an early Indian movie star.- Career :Born in Waltair , Devika Rani came from a distinguished background: she was the great-grandniece of the Nobel Laureate Rabindranath Tagore and her father, Col. M. N. Chaudhuri, was the first Indian Surgeon-General of Madras...	05.00
01st March 2011	LA MARTINIERE SCHOOLS La Martiniere Calcutta La Martiniere Calcutta comprises two separate private schools in Kolkata, India. The schools were established in accordance with the will of Major General Claude Martin in 1836. They are day schools although they both have a small number of boarders...	05.00
23rd March 2011	SUBHADRA JOSHI	05.00
20th April 2011	CHITRALEKHA	05.00
30th April 2011	UMRAO KUNWAR JI 'ARCHANA'	05.00
07th May 2011	RABINDRANATH TAGORE Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore , sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European Nobel laureate by earning the 1913 Prize in Literature...	05.00
25th May 2011	2ND AFRICA-INDIA FORUM SUMMIT 2011	05.00
25th May 2011	2ND AFRICA-INDIA FORUM SUMMIT 2011	25.00
06th July 2011	DR. D.S. KOTHARI	05.00
08th July 2011	UNITED THEOLOGICAL COLLEGE	05.00
21st July 2011	VITTHAL SAKHARAM PAGE	05.00
28th July 2011	KASU BRAHMANANDA REDDY	05.00
01st August 2011	K. M. MATHEW	05.00
05th August 2011	RASHTRAPATI BHAVAN	05.00
25th August 2011	PT. K. SANTANAM	05.00
29th August 2011	DR. M.S. ANEY	05.00
02nd September 2011	SURENDRA NATH JAUHAR	05.00
03rd September 2011	DEV NARAYAN	05.00
07th September 2011	TEJAJI MAHARAJ	05.00
08th September 2011	TRIPURANENI GOPICHAND	05.00
25th September 2011	JAIMALJI MAHARAJ	05.00
30th September 2011	THE TRAINED NURSES ASSOCIATION OF INDIA	05.00
09th October 2011	CHITRAPUR MATH	05.00
12th October 2011	THE PUNJAB REGIMENT & 1 PARA (SF) (1 PUNJAB)	05.00

See also

• Postage stamps and postal history of India
  Postage stamps and postal history of India
  This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of India.Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British displaced the Mughals, their postal systems...