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Which country has released a special stamp on Hindu epic Ramayana to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the diplomatic ties with India?

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Updated On: Jul 15, 2026
  • Indonesia
  • Bangladesh
  • Sri Lanka
  • India
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This question is about which country marked 70 years of diplomatic ties with India through a stamp featuring the Ramayana. Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India can be set aside together, since none of them released this particular commemorative stamp in 2019, and India was the counterpart nation rather than the issuer.

Indonesia is the country that actually issued the stamp, a gesture that highlights how deeply the Ramayana is woven into Indonesian culture, especially in Bali and Java, despite Indonesia being a Muslim majority nation.

So the correct answer is Indonesia.

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What makes this fact memorable, and what the question is testing, is the seeming contradiction of a Muslim majority country choosing a Hindu epic to mark a diplomatic milestone. Working through each option with that in mind clarifies the choice.

  1. Indonesia: its population is overwhelmingly Muslim, yet the Ramayana remains central to its performing arts and folk traditions in places like Bali and Java, so its 2019 stamp release celebrating seventy years of ties with India was a deliberate nod to that shared cultural inheritance.
  2. Bangladesh: has its own long history with India but no comparable Ramayana stamp tied to a seventy year milestone in 2019.
  3. Sri Lanka: the Ramayana is traditionally set partly on the island, which explains why this option can feel right at first glance, but no such stamp came from Sri Lanka in this instance.
  4. India: was on the receiving end of the anniversary gesture, not the one issuing a stamp about its own epic to itself.

Once the cultural surprise is traced back to its actual source, it points squarely to Indonesia rather than to the countries where a Ramayana connection might seem more obvious.

Therefore, the correct answer is Indonesia.

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