List of postage stamps of India (1961–1970)

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

1961[edit]

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

1962[edit]

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

1963[edit]

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

1964[edit]

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

1965[edit]

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

1966[edit]

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

1967[edit]

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

1968[edit]

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

1969[edit]

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

1970[edit]

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

References[edit]

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

External links[edit]

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