Title: LALA DEEN DAYAL
Date Of Issue: 11-Nov-2006
Denomination: 500(Ps)
No/Issue Sheet: 30
Printing Process: Photogravure
Nos. Printed: 0.4. Million
Printer: India Security Prtess, Nashik
LALA DEEN DAYAL- The pioneer of photography in India, left a brilliant visual record of lifestyle, events and monuments of late nineteenth century, displaying in genuity and artistry, so that his photography were seen as expressions of the fine arts, competing with traditional paintings and even replacing many other forms of printing art. Lala Deen Dayal was born at Sardhana near Meerut in 1844. After studying at Thomson's Civil Engineering College at Roorkee, he became an estimator and draughtsman in the Department of Works in the Secretariat in Indore in 1866. Soon, he developed a keen interest in photography. He was encouraged by Sir Henry Daly, the Agent to the Governor General for Central India, who assigned him the task of photographing the royal visit of the Prince of Wales in 1875. Lala Deen Dayal had the opportunity to photograph the Viceroy, Lord Dufferin and Lady Dufferin, and he was appointed as a photographer fo His Excellency to the Viceroy. Soon he resigned from Government Service and became a full time photographer. In 1897, Lala Deen Dayal was granted the Royal Warrant appointing his Photographer to Her Imperial Majesty Queen Victoria. The true-to-life quality of Lala Deen Dayal's photographs provide a rare pictorial glimpse into a bygone era, the picturesque opulence, genteel grandeur and gracious charm of 19th century India, with whiskered nobility, hookah bearers, royal palaces, royal hunts and parades, elephant carriages: golden moment captured on silver plates for posterity. He expired in Bombay on 5th July 1905 at the age of 61. The Department of Posts is happy to issue a commemorative postage stamp on the legendary photographer Lala Deen Dayal.
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