Question

'Jal Copper' stamp was issued in which year?
A. 1970
B. 1975
C. 1977
D. 1979

Answer 1

Hint: Jal Cooper stamp was issued in the year when the National Emergency was terminated.
-It was the year when Indira Gandhi lost the general elections that marked the first defeat of the Congress Party.
-Janata Party had won the elections that year.

Complete answer:
The 'Jal Cooper' stamp was issued by the Government of India in 1977. Jal Cooper was a globally acclaimed philatelist, a specialist regarding the matter of 'postage stamps'.
Jal Cooper was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He was both a stamp seller and a gatherer and was related to philatelists like C. D. Desai, N. D. Cooper, and Robson Lowe.
Jal Cooper was the undisputed head of philately in India from the 1940s till his demise. He has written a few books on different parts of Indian Philately, viz. A Specialized Priced Catalog of Indian Rocket Mails, Stamps and Vignettes, Early Indian Cancellations, India utilized Abroad and India utilized in Burma.
In December 1941, Jal Cooper framed 'The Empire of India Philatelic Society' (EIPS). He filled in as its author Secretary. He procured the distribution 'India's Stamp Journal' (which was begun in January 1937) from a Swiss vendor, in October 1940. He likewise composed a famous section 'Stamp News' in The Illustrated Weekly of India, a mainstream Times of India distribution, in the 1950s and 60s.
He has been celebrated on an Indian dedicatory stamp on 15.12.1997 given on the event of INDEX 97.

Hence the correct answer is option C.

Note:The Postal Department issues postage stamps on a wide assortment of subjects like political pioneers, blossoms, creatures, winged animals, an occasion, or the silver, brilliant, jewel celebrations or century, bicentenary, tercentenary of various occasions.
Postal stamps were introduced in India by Lord Dalhousie in 1854.
The father of postage stamps is MC Gandhi as more than 300 stamps with his picture have been stamped across the world.