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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. 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.
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 ...
Types of postal stamps. There are six types [1] 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 subject of the commemorative stamp is usually ...
Issued forty stamps with values ranging from 1⁄4 anna to 1 rupee. The last issue was released in 1893 and the stamps became obsolete during 1894. [13] A feudatory state in what is now Madhya Pradesh. All stamps of Barwani are typographed. A total of 41 stamps were issued with values ranging from 1⁄4 anna to 4 annas.
Azad Hind. The Provisional Government of Free India or, more simply, Azad Hind, [3] [4] was a short-lived Japanese-controlled provisional government in India. [5] It was established in Japanese occupied Singapore during World War II in October 1943 and has been considered a puppet state of the Empire of Japan. [6] [7] [8]
The postal history of Portuguese India goes back to the earlier days of the colony. The postal history begins with communication between the Viceroy and the Court at Lisbon soon after the conquest of Old Goa by Afonso de Albuquerque in 1510. Letters, written in triplicate, were carried by separate ships because of the hazards of the voyage.
Maulana Shaukat Ali [1] Abadi Bano Begum (Bi Amma) ( Urdu: عبادی بانو بیگم) (Born 1850 Died:13 November 1924) was a prominent voice in the Indian independence movement. She was also known as Bi Amma. [2] She was one of the first Muslim women to actively take part in politics and was part of the movement to free India from the ...
Commemorative postage stamp. In 1989, on the 800th birth anniversary of Baba Farid, the Pakistan Post Office issued a commemorative postage stamp in his honor. Places named after him. Baba Farid University of Health Sciences, Punjab, India; Faridpur, Bangladesh; Faridkot, Punjab, India; Sheikhsar, Rajasthan, India; Sheikhchuliya, Rajasthan, India