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The Indian Post has published the Azad-Hind stamps in a book entitled India's Freedom Struggle through India Postage Stamps. [5] In 2016, the Netaji Birth Place Museum in Cuttack published a brochure in which, among other things, the Azad Hind stamps were shown in "free interpretation". Original stamps are also displayed in the visitor rooms. [6]
Types of postal stamps. There are six types [ 4] postal stamps are in circulation in India: Commemorative stamp of Mahatma Gandhi. Commemorative stamps: A commemorative stamp is often issued on a significant date such as an anniversary, to honour or commemorate a place, event, person, or object.
The first stamp of independent India shows the new Indian Flag. It was meant for foreign correspondence. The second stamp depicts the Aśokan lions capital, the National Emblem of India, and was for domestic use. Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British ...
The first postage stamps of Portuguese India were issued 1 October 1871. [3] [4] These were issued for local use within the colony. Stamps of British India were required for overseas mail. The design of these first stamps simply consisted of a denomination in the center, with an oval band containing the inscriptions "SERVIÇO POSTAL" and "INDIA ...
Image Denomination * Centenary of First Freedom Struggle (Set of 2 Stamps) 1 15 August 1957 Rani Laxmibai: 15 np 2 15 August 1957 Sapling and leaping flames 90 np 3 28 October 1957 19th International Red Cross Conference, New Delhi: 15 np * Children's Day (Set of 3 Stamps) 4 14 November 1957 Nutrition: 8 np 5 14 November 1957 Education: 15 np 6 ...
Image Denomination 1 2 January 1981 Mazharul Haque: 35 2 1 February 1981 St. Stephen's College, Delhi: 35 3 9 February 1981 Gommateshwara: 100 4 27 February 1981 G. V. Mavalankar: 35 5 23 March 1981 Homage to Martyrs 35 6 8 April 1981 Heinrich von Stephan: 100 7 20 April 1981 International Year of Disabled Persons: 100 * Tribes of India, (Set ...
A stamp of British India overprinted in 1944 for use in Oman. A surcharged British stamp issued in 1948 by the British Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia. The first post office to open in the region was at Muscat on 1 May 1864. This was originally under the Bombay circle but it was transferred to the Sind ( Karachi) circle in April 1869 and then ...
Scinde Dawk (Sindhi: سندي ڊاڪ) was a postal system of runners that served the Indus Valley of Sindh, an area of present-day Pakistan.The term also refers to the first adhesive postage stamps in Asia, the forerunners of the adhesive stamps used throughout India, Burma, the Straits Settlements and other areas controlled by the British East India Company.