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List of postage stamps of India

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The Scinde Dawk of 1852, the first postage stamp of India is a round red sealing wafer.

Contents [hide] 1 Stamps produced in British India 2 Stamps produced in independent India 2.1 1947 2.2 1948 2.3 1949 2.4 1950 2.5 1951 2.6 1952 2.7 1953 2.8 1954 2.9 1956 2.10 1957 2.11 1958 2.12 1959 2.13 1960 2.14 1961 2.15 1962 2.16 1963 2.17 1964 2.18 1965 2.19 1966 2.20 1967 2.21 1968 2.22 1969 2.23 1970 2.24 1971 2.25 1972 2.26 1973 2.27 1974 2.28 1975 2.29 1976 2.30 1977 2.31 1978 3 References 4 See also

In its long and varied postal history, India has produced a large number of postage stamps. They have been produced by a number of techniques which include line engraving, typography, lithography, photogravure and web-offset. Stamps have been produced both for postage and for service or revenue. Definitives and commemoratives have been issued. Stamps have been produced both as unperforated sheets, perforated sheets and miniature sheets. The stamps have peen produced in a number of shapes - the Scinde Dawk being rounded and some, like the stamp on the Bombay Sappers being triangular. Recently the 2009 stamp on Louis Braille had braille imprinting on it in addition. Many cases of overprinting exist - for converting the use of domestic postage stamps to service; to earmark stamps sold by field post offices attached with international control commissions and other reasons.
The Indian Postal Service has issued stamps on many themes - relating to history, architecture, nature, culture and heritage. Provisions exist for organisations and interested bodies to suggest the printing of special commemorative stamps as well as first day covers and cancellations. The Indian Post runs philatelic bureaus, operates deposit based philateic services, a philatelic magazine and also publishes lists of stamps from time to time.
This article lists the stamps in two sections - Indian postage before and after independence. Stamps belonging to convention and feudatory states have been excluded.

Stamps produced in British India

Though British rule in India began effectively in the mid-eighteenth century, the first stamp was only issued in 1852, years after the first Penny Black was issued in England. This was the Scinde Dawk followed by the East India company issues and a long series of Queen Victoria heads.

 

Stamps produced in independent India

India's independence saw the postal department issue its first stamp on 21 Nov 1947 depicting the Indian flag. The Dominion of India issued stamps from 1947 to 1949 with the caption of INDIA POSTAGE. In 1950, India became a republic and the first stamps of India as a republic was a series of four issued on that very day. The stamp issues continued to be in Annas (abbreviated as "As") till 1957, when the Indian rupee was decimalised and the rupee was divided into 100 naye paise (Hindi for "new paise"). In 1964, the initial "naye" was dropped. This change in currency is faithfully reflected in the denomination of the stamps of the time. The initial stamps were commemoratives or special issues. In 1949 the first definitive "Archeological" series of 16 values was issued.

1947

1. Independence series (03 values). Indian Flag 3½ A, Aśokan capital 1½ As, Aircraft 12As.

Indian Flag, the first stamp of independent India, released on 21 Nov 1947, was meant for foreign correspondence.

Aśokan capital, the second stamp, depicts the national emblem of India and is for domestic use.

The third stamp, showing a Douglas DC-4 aircraft, was meant for foreign airmail.

1948

1. Air India International 12As - Inauguration of the U.K.Air Service.
2. Mahatma Gandhi series (four values) - 1½ As, 3½ As, 12 As, 10 Rs. Issued on the first Anniversary of Independence. This series meant to venerate Gandhi, was published instead as a mourning issue.

1949

1. 75th Anniversary of formation of Universal Postal Union (U.P.U.)

1950

1. Inauguration of Republic of India.

1951

1. Centenary of Geological Survey of India.
2. First Asian Games, New Delhi.

1952

1. Indian Saints and Poets. Kabir, Tulsidas, Meera Bai, Surdas, Ghalib and Rabindranath

1953

1. Railway Centenary.
2. Conquest of Mount Everest.
3. Centenary of Indian Telegraphs.

1954

1. Postage Stamp Centenary.
2. United Nations Day.
3. Fourth World Forestry Congress.

1956

1. 2,500th Buddha Jayanti.
2. Birth Centenary of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

1957

1. Indian Mutiny Centenary
2. 19th International Red Cross Conference, New Delhi.
3. National Children's Day.
4. Centenary of Indian Universities.

1958

1. 50th Anniversary of first indigenous Steel Industry.
2. Birth Centenary of Dr.Dhondo Keshav Karve.
3. Silver Jubilee of Indian Air Force.
4. Birth Centenary of Bipin Chandra Pal.
5. National Children's Day.
6. Birth Centenary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
7. India-1958 Exhibition, New Delhi.

1959

1. Death Centenary of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.
2. 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation (I.L.O.).
3. National Children's Day.
4. First World Agriculture Fair, New Delhi.

1960

1. Thiruvalluvar.
2. Kalidasa.
3. Subramania Bharati.
4. Birth Centenary of Dr.Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.
5. National Children's Day.
6. UNICEF Day.

1961

1. Tyagaraja.
2. 50th Anniversary of First Official Airmail Flight, Allahabad to Naini.
3. Chhatrapati Shivaji.
4. Motilal Nehru Birth Centenary.
5. Rabindranath Tagore Birth Centenary.
6. Silver Jubilee of All India Radio.
7. Birth Centenary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy.
8. Vishnu Narayan Bhatkhande Birth Centenary
9. National Children's Day.
10. Indian Industries Fair, New Delhi.
11. Centenary of Scientific Forestry.
12. Centenary of Archaeological Survey of India.
13. Birth Centenary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya.

1962

1. Inauguration of Gauhati Oil Refinery.
2. Birth Centenary of Madame Bhikaiji Cama.
3. Inauguration of Panchayati Raj in rural administration.
4. Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
5. Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi.
6. Malaria Eradication.
7. Retirement of President Dr.Rajendra Prasad.
8. Centenary of High Courts of India.
9. Birth Centenary of Ramabai Ranade.
10. National Children's Day.
11. 19th International Congress of Ophthalmology, New Delhi.
12. 75th Birth Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

1963

1. Birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda.
2. Provisional issue.
3. Freedom from Hunger.
4. Red Cross Centenary.
5. Defence Campaign.
6. Dr.Dadabhoy Naoroji.
7. Dr.Annie Besant.
8. Wild Life Preservation.
9. National Children's Day.
10. 15th Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights.

1964

1. 26th International Orientalists Congress, New Delhi.
2. Pandit Gopabandhu Das.
3. 400th Death Anniversary of Purandaradasa.
4. 67th Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose.
5. 85th Birth Anniversary of Sarojini Naidu.
6. 20th Death Anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi.
7. Dr.Waldermar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine.
8. Birth Centenary of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee.
9. 92nd Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo.
10. Raja Rammohun Roy.
11. 6th General Assembly of International Organisation for Standardisation, New Delhi.
12. National Children's Day.
13. St. Thomas.
14. 22nd International Geological Congress, New Delhi.

1965

1. Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
2. Birth Centenary of Lala Lajpat Rai.
3. 20th International Chamber of Commerce Congress, New Delhi.
4. Indian Shipping.
5. Death Centenary of Abraham Lincoln.
6. Centenary of International Telecommunication Union.
7. First Anniversary of Nehru's Death.
8. International Co-operation Year.
9. Indian Mount Everest Expedition.
10. Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant.
11. 90th Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
12. 95th Birth Anniversary of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das.
13. Vidyapati Thakur.

1966

1. 15th Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, New Delhi.
2. Valour of Indian Armed Forces in 1965 war.
3. Lal Bahadur Shastri Mourning issue.
4. Kambar
5. 75th Birth Anniversary of Dr.Binayak Rao Ambedkar.
6. Babu Kunwar Singh.
7. Birth Centenary of Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
8. Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi.
9. Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
10. Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
11. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
12. 60th Death Anniversary of Swami Rama Tirtha.
13. National Children's Day.
14. Centenary of Allahabad High Court.
15. Family Planning Week.
16. India's Hockey Victory in 5th Asian Games, Bangkok.

1967

1. First Death Anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
2. 4th Indian General Election.
3. 300th Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.
4. International Tourist Year.
5. First Death Anniversary of Acharya Nandalal Bose.
6. Survey of India Bicentenary.
7. 800th Death Anniversary of Basaveswara.
8. Narsinha Mehta.
9. Maharana Pratap.
10. Narayana Guru.
11. Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
12. 25th Anniversary of Quit India Movement.
13. Centenary of Indo-European Telegraph Service.
14. World Wrestling Championships, New Delhi.
15. 4th Anniversary of Statehood of Nagaland.
16. Rashbehari Basu.
17. Diamond Jubilee of Scout Movement in India.

1968

1. International Year for Human Rights.
2. 2nd International Conference-Seminar of Tamil Studies, Madras.
3. 2nd United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, New Delhi.
4. Amrita Bazar Patrika Centenary.
5. Birth Centenary of Maxim Gorky.
6. First Triennale, New Delhi.
7. Opening of 1,00,000th Post Office at Brahmpur Chaurasta, Bihar.
8. Wheat Revolution.
9. 30th Death Anniversary of Gaganendranath Tagore.
10. Birth Centenary of Lakshminath Bezbaruah.
11. XIX Olympic Games, Mexico City.
12. 61st Birth Anniversary of Bhagat Singh.
13. 25th Anniversary of Azad Hind Government.
14. Birth Centenary of Sister Nivedita.
15. Birth Centenary of Madame Marie Curie.
16. 21st International Geographical Congress, New Delhi.
17. 400th Anniversary of Cochin Synagogue.
18. I.N.S.Nilgiri.
19. Indian Birds.

1969

1. 130th Birth Anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
2. Birth Centenary of Dr.Bhagavan Das.
3. Dr.Martin Luther King.
4. Death Anniversary of Mirza Ghalib.
5. 50th Anniversary of Osmania University.
6. 20th Anniversary of 'ALL UP' Air Mail Scheme.
7. 50th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation.
8. 50th Anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Amritsar.
9. Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu.
10. Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia.
11. 150th Anniversary of Serampore College, West Bengal.
12. Dr.Zakir Hussain.
13. Birth Centenary of Laxmanrao Kirloskar.
14. Birth Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi.
15. 10th Anniversary of Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Oraganization.
16. 57th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi.
17. First Man on the Moon.
18. 500th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.
19. International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Conference, New Delhi.
20. 90th Birth Anniversary of Sadhu Vaswani.
21. Birth Centenary of Thakkar Bapa.

1970

1. 12th Plenary Assembly of International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR).
2. First Death Anniversary of Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai.
3. 75th Death Anniversary of Munshi Newal Kishore.
4. Centenary of Nalanda College.
5. Swami Shraddhanand.
6. Birth Centenary of Vladimir Illyich Lenin.
7. New Universal Postal Union Headquarters Building, Berne.
8. 425th Death Anniversary of Sher Shah Suri.
9. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
10. 25th Anniversary of United Nations Organisation.
11. Asian Productivity Year.
12. International Education Year (Birth Centenary of Dr.Maria Montessori).
13. Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin).
14. Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri.
15. 150th Birth Anniversary of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
16. Maharsi Valmiki (Author of Epic Ramayana).
17. Centenary of Calcutta Port Commissioner.
18. 50th Anniversary of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi.
19. Jamnalal Bajaj.
20. 50th Anniversary of Indian Red Cross Society.
21. 700th Birth Anniversary of Sant Namdeo.
22. Birth Bicentenary of Ludwig van Beethoven.
23. India National Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi.
24. Diamond Jubilee of Girl Guide Movement in India.

1971

1. Centenary of Indian Life Insurance.
2. Golden Jubilee of Kashi Vidyapeeth.
3. Sant Ravidas.
4. Birth Centenary of Deenabandhu Charles Freer Andrews.
5. 15th Death Anniversary of Acharya Narendra Deo.
6. Census Centenary.
7. Sri Ramana Maharshi.
8. 65th Death Anniversary of Raja Ravi Varma.
9. Birth Centenary of Dadasaheb Phalke.
10. Birth Centenary of Abanindranath Tagore.
11. Swami Virjanand.
12. 2,500th Anniversary of Charter of Cyrus the Great.
13. World Thrift Day.
14. 25th Anniversary United Nations Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
15. National Children's Day.
16. 1st Death Anniversary of Dr.Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.
17. Golden Jubilee of Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
18. Indian Cricket Victories against West Indies and England.

1972

1. First Anniversary of Arvi Satellite Earth Station.
2. Silver Jubilee of Indian Standards Institute (ISI).
3. 50th Anniversary of International Union of Railways.
4. XX Olympic Games, Munich.
5. Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo.
6. 25th Anniversary of Independance.
7. Greetings to Armed Forces on Silver Jubilee of Independence.
8. Birth Centenary of Bhai Vir Singh.
9. Birth Centenary of Tanguturi Prakasham.
10. 300th Birth Anniversary of Vemana.
11. Birth Centenary of Bertrand Russell.
12. Asia-72: 3rd Asian International Trade Fair, New Delhi.
13. First Death Anniversary of Dr.Vikram Sarabhai.
14. 50th Anniversary of USSR.

1973

1. 'INDIPEX 73', International Stamp Exhibition, New Delhi.
2. 25th Anniversary of Independence.
3. Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
4. First Anniversary of Army Postal Service Corps.
5. 'Jai Bangla', Inauguration of First Bangladesh Parliament.
6. Birth Centenary of Kumaran Asan.
7. Homage to Martyrs for Independence.
8. Dr.Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.
9. Indian Miniature Paintings.
10. 15th Anniversary of Indian Mountaineering Foundation, New Delhi.
11. 25th Anniversary of Air India's International Services.
12. 19th Death Anniversary of St. Thomas.
13. Death Centenary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
14. Birth Centenary of Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
15. Centenary of Discovery of Leprosy Bacillus.
16. 5th Birth Centenary of Nicolaus Copernicus.
17. Allan Octavian Hume.
18. Homage to Gandhi and Nehru on 25th Anniversary of Independence.
19. Romesh Chunder Dutt.
20. K.S.Ranjitsinhji.
21. Birth Centenary of Vithalbhai Patel.
22. Bicentenary of President's Bodyguard.
23. 50th Anniversary of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation).
24. Syed Ahmad Khan.
25. National Children's Day.
26. 'INDIPEX - 73', India International Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi.
27. Silver Jubilee of National Cadet Corps, (NCC).
28. First Death Anniversary of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.

1974

1. Indian Masks used in Dance Drama.
2. 300th Anniversary of Coronation of Chatrapati Shri Shivaji Maharaj.
3. Maithili Sharan Gupta.
4. Jainarain Vyas.
5. Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das
6. Kandukuri Veeresalingam.
7. Tipu Sultan.
8. Max Müller.
9. 75th Birth Anniversary of Kamala Nehru.
10. World Population Year.
11. Varahagiri Venkata Giri.
12. Centenary of Universal Postal Union.
13. Centenary of Mathura Museum.
14. Birth Centenary of Nicholas Roerich.
15. 2500th Anniversary of Bhagwan Mahavira's attainment of Nirvana.
16. National Children's Day.
17. 25th Anniversary of UNICEF in India.
18. 25th Anniversary of Indian Territorial Army.
19. 19th International Dairy Congress, New Delhi.
20. Help for Mentally Retarded Children.
21. Birth Centenary of Guglielmo Marconi.
22. Saint Francis Xavier's Apostle Celebration.

1975

1. World Hindi Convention, Nagpur.
2. 25th Anniversary of the Republic.
3. 33rd World Table Tennis Championships, Calcutta.
4. International Women's Year.
5. Bicentenary of Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
6. Centenary of Arya Samaj.
7. World Telugu Conference, Hyderabad.
8. Launch of First Indian Satellite.
9. Indian Birds: Pitta brachyura, Oriolus xanthomus, Tragopan melanocephalus and Lophophorus impejamus.
10. 4th Centenary of Ramcharitmanas (epic poem by Tulsidas).
11. Centenary of Indian Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
12. 500th Birth Anniversary of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
13. 25th Anniversary of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.
14. Satellite Instructional Television Experiment.
15. 600th Birth Anniversary of Sant Arunagirinathar.
16. Namibia Day.
17. Mir Anees.
18. Ahilyabai Holkar.
19. Indian Classical Dances: Bharata Natyam, Orissi, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi and Manipuri.
20. Ameer Khusrau.
21. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon.
22. Bahadur Shah Zafar.
23. 21st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi.
24. Birth Centenary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
25. Birth Centenary of Karmavir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi.
26. National Children's Day.
27. 50th Anniversary of India Security Press, Nasik.
28. Tercentenary of the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
29. Centenary of the Theosophical Society.
30. Centenary of the Indian Meteorological Department.
31. 'INPEX-75' India National Philatelic Exhibition, Calcutta.

1976

1. First Death Anniversary of Lalit Narayan Mishra.
2. Birth Centenary of Edward James (Jim) Corbett.
3. Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur.
4. Bicentenary of 16th Light Cavalry Regiment.
5. Alexander Graham Bell.
6. Birth Centenary of Muthuswami Dikshitar.
7. World Health Day. Prevention of Blindness.
8. Industrial Development.
9. Indian Locomotives.
10. Bicentenary of American Revolution.
11. Kumaraswamy Kamaraj.
12. XXI Olympic Games, Montreal.
13. Subhadra Kumari Chauhan.
14. Param Vir Chakra (Highest Gallantry Award).
15. 60th Anniversary of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University, Bombay.
16. Bharatendu Harishchandra.
17. Birth Centenary of Sarat Chandra Chatterjee.
18. Family Planning Campaign.
19. Maharaja Agrasen.
20. Indian Wild Life: Swamp Deer, Indian Lion, Leopard and Caracal.
21. Voluntary Blood Donation.
22. Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
23. National Children's Day.
24. Hiralal Shastri.
25. Dr.Hari Singh Gour.
26. Inauguration of Indian Airlines Airbus Service.
27. Diamond Jubilee of Coconut Research.
28. Centenary of 'Vande Mataram'.

1977

1. Sixth International Film Festival of India, New Delhi.
2. Sixth World Conference of Earthquake Engineering, New Delhi.
3. Birth Centenary of Tarun Ram Phookun.
4. Paramahansa Yogananda.
5. First Asian Regional Red Cross Conference, New Delhi.
6. Death of Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed.
7. 15th Anniversary of Asian Oceanic Postal Union.
8. Birth Centenary of Narottam Morarjee.
9. Makhanlal Chaturvedi.
10. Vallabhacharya.
11. 50th Anniversary of Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
12. 5th World Environment Day.
13. 25th Anniversary of Rajya Sabha (Upper House of Parliament).
14. Indian Flowers.
15. Centenary of Sound Recording.
16. Birth Centenary of Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy.
17. 50th Death Anniversary of Ganga Ram.
18. 32nd International Homeopathic Congress.
19. Ram Manohar Lohia.
20. 'INPEX-77', 3rd National Philatelic Exhibition, Bangalore.
21. 'ASIANA-77', First Asian International Philatelic Exhibition, Bangalore.
22. 15th International Congress of Pediatrics, New Delhi.
23. Kittur Rani Channamma.
24. Union Public Service Commission.
25. 'AGRIEXPO-77', Agriculture Exposition, New Delhi.
26. National Children's Day.
27. Indian Personalities: J. Phooley and S. Bapat.
28. 41st Session of International Statistical Institute, New Delhi.
29. Kamta Prasad Guru.
30. 60th Year of October Revolution.

1978

1. Conquest of Kanchenjunga.
2. 27th Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, New Delhi.
3. World Book Fair, New Delhi.
4. Birth Centenary of The Mother, Pondicherry.
5. Fifth International Wheat Genetics Symposium, New Delhi.
6. Nanalal Dalpatram Kavi.
7. Surjya Sen.
8. Modern Indian Paintings.
9. 400th Birth Anniversary of Peter Paul Rubens.
10. Charles Spencer Chaplin.
11. Deendayal Upadhyaya.
12. Shyama Prasad Mookerjee.
13. Museums of India.
14. Bhagawadgeeta.
15. Centenary of Bethune College.
16. E.V.Ramasami.
17. Uday Shankar Chowdhury.
18. 150th Birth Anniversary of Leo Tolstoy.
19. Birth Centenary of Vallathol Narayana Menon.
20. National Children's Day.
21. National Small Industries Fair, New Delhi.
22. 175th Anniversary of Skinner's Horse (Cavalry regiment).
23. Birth Centenary of Mohammad Ali Jauhar.
24. Birth Centenary of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.
25. 75th Anniversary of Powered Flight.
26. Centenary of Ravenshaw College, Cuttack.
27. Death Anniversary of Franz Peter Schubert.