Indian philatelic journey: How stamps became part of India’s family planning mission
Vikas Kumar, faculty, Azim Premji University, in ThePrint, highlights how family planning was a major philatelic theme for more than three decades, between 1966 and 1999, in India.
Vikas Kumar teaches economics at Azim Premji University and is the author of Waiting for a Christmas Gift and Other Essays (forthcoming) and co-author of Numbers in India’s Periphery: The Political Economy of Government Statistics (Cambridge University Press, 2020).