"Gandhi centenary stamp" [Temp.2024.5.6]

Catalogue Number
Temp.2024.5.6

Object Name
stamp

Title
gandhi 2 10 1869 - 30 1 1948 centenary 2.10.1869 - 2.10.1969

Place
India

People
Gandhi, Mohandas; International War Resisters

Events
Indian Independence

Date
1969

Description
White stamp with a brown linocut-style illustration of Gandhi walking with a cane. Below text reads "gandhi 2 10 1869 - 30 1 1948 centenary 2.10.1869 - 2.10.1969". Up the side in smaller text is "war resister's international 3 caledonian road london n1 england". At the top right, the paper has been ink stamped with a "FOR A VEGETARIAN WORLD" stamp.


Founded in 1921, War Resisters International is a global pacifist and antimilitarist organisation working in 40 countries to campaign against wars and promote and educate on nonviolence. Gandhi was among several high-profile members of WRI, which worked closely with the Indian independence movement from the 1920s-40s.

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