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A postage stamp to commemorate Venkayya and the first flag was issued in 2009. [2] The Vijayawada station of All India Radio was named after him in 2014. [13] [14] In 2012, his name was proposed for a posthumous Bharat Ratna though there has been no response from the central government on the proposal. [4] [6]
1901 - 1915. Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah Bahadur GCIE KCSI (7 June 1871 – 16 January 1915) was the fourth Nawab of Dhaka and one of the leading Muslim politicians during the British rule in India. [ 1] On 30 December 1906, the All-India Muslim League was officially founded at the educational conference held in Dhaka. [ 2]
These stamps, which were initially bought by many collectors due to lack of knowledge, at best have only a low value as curiosities. The Scott Standard Postage Stamp Catalogue wrote under the keyword South Moluccas : It appears that the stamps of the so-called republic of South Moluccas were privately issued and had no postal use.
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.
Postage stamps of Pakistan are those issued since Pakistan's independence in 1947. Pakistan Post has issued more than 600 sets and singles totalling more than 1300 stamps. Immediately after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the new Pakistan government was preoccupied with setting up the government so British Indian stamps continued in use ...
The United States Postal Service issued a 34-cent stamp on the 1 September 2001 at the annual Islamic Society of North America's convention in Des Plaines, Illinois.It features gold Arabic calligraphy on a lapis background that commemorates two of the most important Muslim festivals: Eid ul-Fitr, marking the end of the month-long fast of Ramadan and Eid al-Adha, at the end of the pilgrimage to ...
This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Saudi Arabia, formerly known as the Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd until 22 September 1932. The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd had been separate countries until the mid-1920s. Saudi Arabia is the largest Arab country of the Middle East. It is bordered by Jordan and Iraq on the north and ...
Siddiqui Stamps Catalogue - Collect Pakistan Postage Stamps 2011 Edition available at www.pakistanphilately.com Editor: Akhtar ul Islam Siddiqui; Ron Doubleday and Usman Ali Isani, Pakistan Overprints on Indian Stamps and Postal Stationery 1947–1949, Karachi (1993).