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2014

STAMPS PUBLISHEDBY MINISTRY OF

COMMUNICATION OF

GoI OF SINDHIPERSONALITIESSindhi Personalities

Six stamps of Sindhi Personalities and one stamp of Jhulelal were published by

Postal Department of Government of India. This document displays stamp and

some details of the personality in brief.

2014 

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 Sadhu T.L.Vaswani

Date of

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25 November 1969

Sadhu Vaswani ( Educationalist ) - 90th Birth Anniversary

Sadhu T. L. Vaswani (November 25, 1879 – January 16, 1966)[1][2] SadhuT. L. Vaswani was an Indian educationist who started the Mira movement ofeducation and set up Sadhu Vaswani Mission in Hyderabad, Sindh, and later

moved to Pune after 1949.[3] A museum, Darshan Museum dedicated to hislife and teaching was opened in Pune, in 2011.[4] 

Sadhu Vaswani was born Thanwardas Lilaram Vaswani,in Hyderabad Sind. When he was a boy, he attended the Academy at

Hyderabad-Sind. As a boy, he first learned about the sacred texts called theUpanishads from Upadhyaya Brahmabandhav, a Brahmin from Bengal who

adopted Christianity. Later in his lifetime, Sadhu Vaswani was recognized asan accomplished proponent of the Upanishads and a skilled interpreter of the

Bible and the Qur'an.

He passed his Matriculation and completed his B.A. from the University ofBombay in 1899. After completing his B.A. examination, he received the Ellis

Scholarship and became a Dakshina Fellow at D.J. Sind College in Karachiwhile studying for his master's degree. He received his M.A. degree also

from the University of Bombay in 1902. He then asked his mother forpermission to devote his life to the service of God and man. His mother

desired that her son have success in life and would not agree. As a result,Vaswani agreed to take a teaching job at his alma mater, Union Academy.

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His mother sought to arrange a marriage for her son but Vaswani vowed to

remain a brahmachari and never to marry. He soon accepted a position asProfessor of History and Philosophy at Metropolitan College in Calcutta.

There in Calcutta Vaswani found his guru, Sri Promotholal Sen, calledNaluda.

After receiving his M.A. degree, at the age of 22, Vaswani took a job atUnion Academy, his alma mater. After a few months, he accepted a position

as a Professor of History and Philosophy at City College, Kolkata in 1903. In1908 he moved to Karachi to join D. J. Science College as Professor of

English and Philosophy, before participating in the Indian independencemovement.

In July 1910, when Vaswani was 30 years old, he and his guru, SriPromotholal Sen, sailed from Mumbai to Berlin. In August 1910, they

participated in the Welt Congress or the World Congress of Religions inBerlin. Sadhu Vaswani spoke to the conference as a representative of India

and expressed a message of peace, tranquility, the helping and healing of

India, and Atman. He founded Sadhu Vaswani Mission in 1929, in Hyderabad.

He was 40 years old when his mother died. He fulfilled his promise to her to

work and make an income during her lifetime, but after her funeral heresigned his employment. He was an early supporter of  Mahatma

Gandhi'sNon-Cooperation Movement.  Upon his motion and under hisinfluence the Sind Political Conference of the Indian National

Congress passed a resolution regarding the NonCooperation program. Hewrote many books, which include: India Arisen; Awake, Young

India!; India's Adventure; India in Chains; The Secret of Asia; My

Motherland; Builders of Tomorrow; and Appostles ofFreedom. The Government of India issued a postage stamp in his honour.

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 JAIRAMDAS DAULATRAM

Gandhian Sindhi Politician of Sindh - Jairamdas Daulatram Alimchandani

Jairamdas Daulatram is the first name which strikes to one's mind whenthought about the most noblest, highly respectful Sindhi teacher and

Gandhian Sindhi politician of Sindh. This was the pleasant moment for theentire Alimchandani family of Karachi when on 21st July 1891 Jairamdas was

born as the son of Daulatram Alimchandani. 

Jairamdas went on to acquire degree of Law graduate with very excellencetrack record of academic achievements from his early primary education.

After completing education he started legal practice but was forced to leave

this just because being highly influenced with philosophy of MahatmaGandhi, his conscience was not permitting him to make the compromises

which was demand of professional legal practice. 

This was during the 1915 when Jairamdas come in close and personalcontacts of Mahatma Gandhi, from this very first meeting he becomedevoted follower of Gandhi Ji and since the 1919 Amritsar Session of the

Indian National Congress he was considered as the member of Kitchencabinet of Mahatma Gandhi. In the words of Gandhi Ji "I swear by

Jairamdas. Truer man I have not had the honour of meeting."Greatness, dedication to serve Sindh and desire for freedom of Jairamdas

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was underlined by Mrs. Sarojini Naidu with words "Lamp in the Desert". He

also become active with Home Rule Movement led by Annie Besant andMuhammad Ali Jinnah and inspired several thousands to lit the fire and

desire for the freedom.He took active part in the Non-cooperation movement (1920-1922), [non-

violent civil disobedience], Salt Satyagraha (1930-31) and the Quit Indiamovement (1942-45). He was wounded in police firing while leading the

street protestors agitating outside a magistrate's court in Karachi in 1930.He was also imprisoned by British authorities for being the congress leaderof Sindh. 

In 1926, he was elected to the Bombay Legislative Council. He has also

served as a member of the Congress Working Committee from 1928 to 1940and was twice elected as the General Secretary of the Congress in 1029 and

1934. After the Individual Satyagrah of 1933 in which he worked as thePresident of the Indian National Congress, he engaged himself in the

constructive activities of the Congress like harijan and village work. In 1934,he was appointed as the Chairman of the Bombay Textile Wage Committee

and also a member of the Central Board of the Village Industries Association.In the 1946 when Constituent Assembly of India was constitute he was givenopportunity to work as the member of it.

After the partition of the country in 1947 Jairamdas opted to live in India,though his birth place Karachi in Sindh become part of Pakistan. In the Free

India beside being the member of ever first cabinet of independent Indiasworn in on 31 January 1950 he worked at various posts such as

First Indian Governor of Bihar [till 1948]Served as a member of the advisory, union subjects, and provincial

constitution committees.

Governor of Assam [From 1950 to 1956] 

This was the first day of March in 1979, when Jairamdas breathed last.

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ACHARYA KRIPLANI

Jivatram Bhagwandas Kripalani Sindhi: November 1888 – 19 March 1982),popularly known as Kripalani, was an Indian politician, noted particularly for

holding the presidency of the Indian National Congress during the transfer ofpower in 1947. During the election for the post of the future Prime Minister

of  India held by the Congress party, he had the second highest number ofvotes after Sardar Patel.  However, on Gandhi's insistence, both Patel and

Kripalani backed out to allow Jawahar Lal Nehru to become the first PrimeMinister of India. 

Kripalani was a Gandhian Socialist,environmentalist, mystic and independence activist. 

He grew close to Gandhi and at one point, he was one of Gandhi's most

ardent disciples. Kripalani was a familiar figure to generations of dissenters,

from the Non-Cooperation Movements of the 1920s to the Emergency of the1970s.

Jivatram (also spelled Jayant) Bhagwandas Kripalani was born

in Hyderabad in Sindh in 1888. Following his education at FergussonCollege in Pune,  he worked as a schoolteacher before joining the freedommovement in the wake of  Gandhi's return from South Africa.

Kripalani was involved in the Non-Cooperation Movement of the early 1920s.He worked in Gandhi's ashrams in Gujarat and Maharashtra on tasks of

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social reform and education, and later left for Bihar and the United

Provinces in northern India to teach and organise new ashrams. He courtedarrest on numerous occasions during the Civil Disobedience movements and

smaller occasions of organising protests and publishing seditious materialagainst the British raj 

Kripalani joined the All India Congress Committee, and became its generalsecretary in 1928–29.

Kripalani was prominently involved over a decade in top Congress partyaffairs, and in the organisation of the Salt Satyagraha and the Quit India

Movement. Kripalani served in the interim government of India (1946–1947)and the Constituent Assembly of India . 

In spite of being ideologically at odds with both the right-wing VallabhbhaiPatel and the left-wing Jawaharlal Nehru –  he was elected Congress

President for the crucial years around Indian independence in 1947. After

Gandhi's assassination in January 1948, Nehru rejected his demand that theparty's views should be sought in all decisions. Nehru, with the support of

Patel, told Kripalani that while the party was entitled to lay down the broadprinciples and guidelines, it could not be granted a say in the government's

day-to-day affairs. This precedent became central to the relationshipbetween government and ruling party in subsequent decades.

Nehru, however, supported Kripalani in the election of the CongressPresident in 1950. Kripalani, supported by Nehru, was defeated by Patel's

candidate Purushottam Das Tandon. Bruised by his defeat, and disillusionedby what he viewed as the abandonment of the Gandhian ideal of a countless

village republics, Kripalani left the Congress and became one of the foundersof the Kisan Mazdoor Praja Party.  This party subsequently merged with

the Socialist Party of India to form the Praja Socialist Party. 

For a while it was even believed that Nehru, stung by the defeat, was

considering abandoning the Congress as well; his several offers ofresignation at the time were all, however, shouted down.[citation needed] A

great many of the more progressive elements of the party left in the months

following the election. Congress's subsequent bias to the right was onlybalanced when Nehru obtained the resignation of Tandon in the run up to

the general elections of 1951.

Kripalani remained a critic of Nehru's policies and administration, whileworking for social and environmental causes.

While remaining active in electoral politics, Kripalani gradually became more

of a spiritual leader of the socialists than anything else; in particular, he wasgenerally considered to be, along with Vinoba Bhave, the leader of the what

remained of the Gandhian faction. He was active, along with Bhave, inpreservation and conservation activities throughout the 1970s.

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In 1972-3, he agitated against the increasingly authoritarian rule of Nehru's

daughter Indira Gandhi,  then Prime Minister of India. Kripalaniand Jayaprakash Narayan felt that Gandhi's rule had become dictatorial and

anti-democratic. Her conviction on charges of using government machineryfor her election campaign galvanised her political   opposition and public

disenchantment against her policies. Along with Narayan and Lohia, Kripalanitoured the country urging non-violent protest and civil disobedience. When

the Emergency was declared as a result of the vocal dissent he helped stirup, the octogenarian Kripalani was among the first of the Opposition leadersto be arrested on the night of 26 June 1975. He lived long enough to survivethe Emergency and see the first non-Congress government since

Independence following the Janata Party victory in the 1977 polls.

He died on 19 March 1982, at the age of 94.

In the 1982 film Gandhi by Richard Attenborough, J.B. Kripalani was playedby Indian actor Anang Desai. 

His autobiography My Times was released 22 years after his death by Rupa

publishers in 2004. In the book, he accused his fellow members of Congress(except Ram Manohar Lohia, Mahatma Gandhi and Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan)

of "moral cowardice" for accepting or submitting to plan to partition India.

A postal Stamp was issued in his in the year 11 November 1989 on his Birth

Centenary 

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DADA LEKHRAJ

Lekhraj Khubchand Kripalani (15 December 1876 – 18 January 1969), also

known as Dada Lekhraj, was the founder of the Brahma Kumaris. He is alsoknown as Brahma Baba by the members of the Brahma Kumaris.

Originally from Hyderabad, Sindh,  Lekhraj Kripalani became extremelywealthy from a jewellery in Calcutta. In his fifties, Kripalani reportedly

had visions and retired, returning to Hyderabad in Sindh and turning tospirituality. In 1932, Lekhraj established a spiritual organisation called Om

Mandali. Originally a follower of the Vaishnavite Vallabhacharya sect[4] and

member of the exogamous Bhaiband community, he is said to have had12 gurus but started preaching or conducting his own satsangs which, by

1936, had attracted around 300 people from his community, many of thembeing wealthy. The BKWSU claims that a relative reported that a spiritual

being (Shiva)  entered in his body and spoke through him. Since then,Lekhraj has been regarded by the BKWSU as a medium of God, and as such,

speaking channeled messages of high importance within the religiousmovement's belief system.

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HEMU KALANI

On this date in 1943, the British hanged India independence activist Hemu

Kalaniin Sukkur for attempting to sabotage a rail line.

You could say the Sindh youth was not cowed by the Empire‟s suppression of

the Quit Indiamovement.

 “In the face of this shameful capitulation of the „left‟ leaders,” he raged of

respectable pols prepared to accept office at the pleasure of the British

during wholesale confinement of political prisoners, “what should the rankand file „leftists‟ do?”  

It is only by waging unremitting struggle against capitulation in every form,

by fighting against dissolution of their own organizations, that they canseriously fight to attain the goal. Intransigent opposition to every

capitulationist masquerading as a „leftist‟! 

As the British rounded up the Quit India leadership, less conciliatory youngpeople like Kalani came to the fore (pdf) and then were further radicalized

by British intransigence.

If you‟re going to lock up Mr. Nonviolence himself, Mahatma Gandhi, you‟re

going to get to deal instead with the elements he keeps in check. That wascertainly Gandhi‟s argument: he refused to condemn violence, observing

that the British themselves had called it up.

Mass protests gave way to more aggressive direct action; in Kalani‟s case,

that meant derailing a train bringing ammunition to the European forcesoccupying his native province.

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Caught in the act, he refused under torture to shop his comrade, earning a

hemp necktie from the occupiers and the tribute of posterity on thesubcontinent.

Somewhat ironically, the relative intransigence of Quit India supportersduring this period, as compared with the Muslim League „s greater support

for Britain‟s immediate World War II exigencies, helped to  cleaveapart Pakistan and India when independence did come in the late 1940s …

which is why the Hindu Kalani is most honored in India, even though hisnative soil is now in Pakistan. 

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 JHULELAL sahib

The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, ShriKapil Sibal releasing Commemorative Postage Stamp on Pujya Jhulelal, inNew Delhi on March 17, 2013.

At Jodhpur in Rajasthan also a stamp release function was organized bySindhu Gulshan. Hundreds of people and many philatelists were present inthe function.