India on Ameer Khusrau
A commemorative postage stamp on the 650th Death Anniversary of Amir Khusrow, an Indian Sufi musician, poet and scholar, spiritual disciple of Nizamuddin Auliya of Delhi [a part of ‘Personalities Stamps Series‘] :
Issued by India
Issued on Oct 24, 1975
Designed by : India Security Press
Type : Stamp, Postal Used
Colour : Buff and red brown
Denomination : 50 Paise
Overall size : 3.91 x 2.90 cms.
Printing size : 3.56 x 2.54 cms.
Perforation : 13 x 13
Watermark : Printed on unwatermarked Adhesive Stamp paper
Quantity printed : 3 Million
Number per issue sheet : 35
Printed at : India Security Press
Name : Ab’ul Hasan Yamīn ud-Dīn Khusrau
Born on 1253 at Patiyali, Kasganj [previoisly ETAH], Delhi Sultanate [now in Uttar Pradesh, India]
Died on Oct, 1325 at Delhi (Nizamuddin), India
[…] the mother of ghazals in the Indian subcontinent. Though the ghazal had its origins in the times of Hazrat Amir Khusro about six centuries ago, it was Begum Akhtar who by her passion for ghazal singing and […]