Hardekar Manjappa

A Special cover on the Gandhi of Karnataka, Hardekar Manjappa was released at Banavasi on 8th April 2022.

Shri Hardekar Manjappa was born in 1886 at Banavasi near Sirsi in Karnataka. He was a nationalist. journalist and a great freedom fighter. He was inclined towards Bal Gangadhar Tilak's political ideology initially and then got into the fold of mahatma Gandhi. to propagate the importance of Khadi, he spread the concept of Swaraj and Swadeshi. the life and works of Hardekar Manjappa were based on the Gandhian ideology. Appreciating his services to the people, the people of Karnataka fondly use to call him the Gandhi of Karnataka.

Cover Code: KTK23/2022