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The history of India's postal system begins long before the introduction of postage stamps. The antecedents have been traced to the systems of the Persian Empire instituted by Cyrus the Great and Darius I for communicating important military and political information.
India has a long and varied postal history and has produced a large number of postage stamps. These have been produced by a variety of techniques including line engraving , typography , lithography , photogravure and web-offset .
Appearance. Pasumpon Muthuramalinga Thevar. Portrait of Muthuramalinga Thevar on a postal stamp. Born. Pasumpon Ukkirapandi Muthuramalinga Thevar. (1908-10-30) 30 October 1908. Pasumpon (village), Ramnad District, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Ramanathapuram District, Tamil Nadu, India) Died.
Shahjahan Begum GCSI CI (29 July 1838 – 16 June 1901) was the Nawab Begum of Bhopal (the ruler of the Islamic principality of Bhopal in central India) for two periods: 1844–60 (her mother acting as regent), and secondly during 1868–1901.
Definitives included a technology-and-development theme in 1955, a series depicting a map of India in 1957 (denominated in naya paisa—decimal currency) and a 1965 series with a wide variety of images. The old inscription "India Postage" was replaced in 1962 with "भारत INDIA", although three stamps (issued from December 1962 to January ...
Muhammad Ali Jauhar Khan (10 December 1878 – 4 January 1931) was an Indian Muslim freedom activist, a pre-eminent member of Indian National Congress, journalist and a poet, a leading figure of the Khilafat Movement and one of the founders of Jamia Millia Islamia. [1] [2] [3]
Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states. British Indian Empire as shown in the 1909 Imperial Gazetteer of India. The native states of India, also known as feudatory or princely states, were typically vassals under a local or regional ruler who owed allegiance to the British Raj. There were about 675 native states in all but many ...
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 .