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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]
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 [ 4] 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.
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]
Asia Regional Conference of the Rotary International, (Set of 2 Stamps) 32 14 October 1987 Map of Asia & Rotary Logo 60 33 14 October 1987 Oral Polio Vaccination: 650 34 15 October 1987 100 Years of Service to the Blind 100 35 15 October 1987 Eye Donation: 200 * India – 89 (World Philatelic Exhibition), (Set of 4 Stamps) 36 17 October 1987
Muslim rule in India saw a major shift in the cultural, linguistic, and religious makeup of the subcontinent. [8] Persian and Arabic vocabulary began to enter local languages, giving way to modern Punjabi, Bengali, and Gujarati, while creating new languages including Hindustani and its dialect, Deccani , used as official languages under Muslim ...
The Union Territory of Puducherry lies in the southern part of the Indian Peninsula. The areas of Puducherry district and Karaikal district are bound by the state of Tamil Nadu, while Yanam district and Mahé district are enclosed by the states of Andhra Pradesh and Kerala, respectively. Puducherry is the 29th most populous of the 36 states and ...
The Indian Rebellion of 1857 was a significant uprising against British colonial rule in India from 1857 to 1858. It was directed against the authority of the British East India Company, which acted as a self-governing autonomous entity on behalf of the British Crown. Indian Muslim soldiers, known as sepoys, were instrumental in igniting the ...