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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 ...
This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations. Please help to improve this article by introducing more precise citations. (December 2017) (Learn how and when to remove this message) The Scinde Dawk of 1852, the first postage stamp of India is a round red sealing wafer. India has a long and varied postal history and has produced a ...
One of the earliest postage stamps of Hyderabad state, the half-anna 1871 Stanley Gibbons ser 4. Two rupees 1897 Queen Victoria head of Nabha, a convention state. Two anna red-brown 1916 postage stamp of Orchha state. A post box from Travancore period known as Anchal petty still being used in Kerala. The native states which issued postage ...
History of Mumbai. Indigenous tribals have inhabited Mumbai (Bombay) since the Stone Age. [ 1] The Kolis and Aagri (a Marathi-Konkani people) [ 2] were the earliest known settlers of the islands. Between the 2nd century BCE and 10th century CE, the islands came under the control of successive indigenous dynasties: the Satavahanas, Abhiras ...
Mumbai ( / mʊmˈbaɪ / ⓘ, Marathi: [ˈmumbəi], ISO: Muṁbaī; formerly known as Bombay[ a]) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra. Mumbai is the financial capital and the most populous city of India with an estimated population of 12.5 million (1.25 crore ). [ 20] Mumbai is the centre of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, the ...
Jal Manekji Cooper FRGS (29 March 1905 [1] – 2 August 1972) in Mumbai, was an Indian philatelist, and an expert and authenticator [2] of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Cooper was also a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and the author of several philatelic handbooks. He was both a stamp dealer [3] and a collector and ...
Azad Hind stamps. The Azad Hind stamps are a set of prepared but never issued stamps for the planned Provisional Government of Free India under Subhas Chandra Bose. All stamps were printed by photogravure in sheets of 100 at the Reichsdruckerei, the Government Printing Bureau in Berlin. [ 1]
Issue Date Description Image Denomination 1 2 January 1981 Mazharul Haque: 35 2 1 February 1981 St. Stephen's College, Delhi: 35 3 9 February 1981