Description: This photogravure-printed, light brown definitive stamp from India spotlights a clear cartographic silhouette map of the country. The national landmass is centered against a dark circular background, bordered on the left by an elegant, vertical band filled with decorative traditional scrolling lotus vines. The name "INDIA" is stacked in clean lettering along the right-hand margin, while the lower border contains the word "POSTAGE" set alongside the "2 N.P." face value in western digits and its matching shorthand Devanagari script notation. A heavy, smudged black post office cancellation mark cuts unevenly across the upper right portion, altering the appearance of the country name and indicating its regular commercial handling through the domestic mail stream.
Circa: 1957 – 1963 (Released into heavy national distribution to support the widespread adoption of newly structured decimal payment fractions across the territory).
Condition: Used - Hinged
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