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  2. Postage stamps and postal history of India - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Azad Hind stamps - Wikipedia

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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]

  4. List of postage stamps of India - Wikipedia

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    My Stamp [6]: 'My Stamp' is the brand name for personalized sheets of postage stamps of India Post. The personalization is achieved by printing a thumb nail image of the individual photograph and logos of institutions, or images of artwork, heritage buildings, famous tourist places, historical cities, wildlife, other animals and birds etc., on ...

  5. Geography and cartography in the medieval Islamic world

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    The works of Ibn Khordadbeh (c. 870) and Jayhani (c. 910s) were at the basis of a new Perso-Arab tradition in Persia and Central Asia. [10] The exact relationship between the books of Khordadbeh and Jayhani is unknown, because the two books had the same title, have often been mixed up, and Jayhani's book has been lost, so that it can only be approximately reconstructed from the works of other ...

  6. Muslim period in the Indian subcontinent - Wikipedia

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    The perfunctory rule by the Ghaznavids in Punjab was followed by Ghurids, and Sultan Muhammad of Ghor (r. 1173–1206) is generally credited with laying the foundation of Muslim rule in Northern India. From the late 12th century onwards, Muslim empires dominated the subcontinent, most notably the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. [2]

  7. Baba Farid - Wikipedia

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    Bābā Farīd was born in 1188 (573 AH) in Kothewal, 10 km from Multan in the Punjab region, to Jamāl-ud-dīn Suleimān and Maryam Bībī (Qarsum Bībī), daughter of Wajīh-ud-dīn Khojendī. [ 5] Amaresh Datta gives his life span as 1178–1271. [ 7] He received his early education at Multan, which had become a centre for Muslim education.

  8. List of miniature sheets from India Post - Wikipedia

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    India Post miniature sheets [2] [3] Sr. No. Description Denomination Issue date 1 Indipex 73 India International Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi. ₹ 4.65 14 Nov 1973 2 Indian Masks Series ₹ 3.70 15 Apr 1974 3 Centenary of Universal Postal Union ₹ 3.25 3 Oct 1974 4 World Philatelic Exhibition - New Delhi (1st issue) ₹ 8.00 15 Jun 1987 5

  9. Somnath temple - Wikipedia

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    The Somnath temple is located along the coastline in Prabhas Patan, Veraval, Saurashtra region of Gujarat. It is about 400 kilometres (249 mi) southwest of Ahmedabad, 82 kilometres (51 mi) south of Junagadh – another major archaeological and pilgrimage site in Gujarat. It is about 7 kilometres (4 mi) southeast of the Veraval railway junction ...