Indian Postal Stamps - Table of Contents

Page Last Updated: September 07,2008

We continue our series on the social and cultural artifacts from India in this section on Philately. As can be seen in the following presentation, The Indian Postal Service, has rightly undertaken the responsibility of representing the rich and diverse cultural entity of the subcontinent. - Ed.

Table of Contents

• Ba-Bapu -- The Gandhi Couple
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
• Composer Shyama Shastri
• Cricketer C.K. Nayudu
• Dancing Girls
• Emperor Chandragupta Maurya
• Gandhi Centenary 1869-1969
• General Zorawar Singh (1786-1841 A.D.)
• Indian Postage Stamp Honoring Art of Jamini Roy
• Industrialist Jamsetji Tata (1838-1904)
• Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Music Maestro Tansen
• Muthuswami Dikshitar ( 1775-1835)
• Panchatantra on Postage
• Poet Ameer Khusru (1253-1325)
• Portrait of Annadurai
• The Royal Elephant Ride
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• William Carey (1761-1834)

More Stamps from Indian Stamp Database

• The Amla Plant -- Emblica officinalis
• Arjuna Shoots Rotating Fish by Aiming at the Reflection
• Artist Uday Shankar
• Ashwagandha - Withania somnifera
• B.R. Ambedkar
• Babu Rajendra Prasad
• Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• The Brahmi Plant -- Bacopa monnieri
• Bridal Jewelry, India
• Century and a Half of Indian Railways
• Chandra Shekhar Azad, Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter
• Chettur Sankaran Nair
• Composer Purandaradasa (15/16th Century)
• Dadabhoy Naoroji (1825-1917)
• Dandami Maria
• Durgabai Deshmukh
• Early Postman of India
• Early Postman of India Carrying Mail through Woods
• Family Planning Stamp
• Festival of India
• Fifty Years of Gorkha Rifles
• First Day Cover Marking the Festival of Buddha Mahotsav
• First Day Cover Featuring P.L. Deshpande
• A First Day Release Envelope
• Freedom Fighter Udham Singh
• G. Sankara Kurup (1901-1978)
• Giani Zail Singh
• Great Poets (Surdas, Ghalib and Rabindranath)
• Guggulu Tree -- Comniphora wighitii
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907-2003)
• Hijri - Islamic Calendar
• Indian Stamp for Olympics
• Indian Stamp Honoring Laxmibai of Jhansi
• Indira Gandhi at the United Nations
• International Year of the Child 1979.
• Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891)
• Jnanapith Award Winners in Kannada
• Krishna Nath Sarmah
• Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861- 1946)
• Madhubani - Mithila Painting
• Megha-Doot, the Cloud Messenger
• The Mother Pondicherry
• Mother Teresa and the Nobel Prize of 1979
• Mother Teresa
• Nellie Sengupta and Jatindra Mohan Sengupta
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Painting by Amrita Sher Gil
• Poet Surdas (1479-1586)
• Poet Tulasidas (1533-1624)
• Postage Stamp of Nataraja
• President Zakir Husain (1897-1969)
• Queen Avantibai
• Queen of Kittur, Channamma (1778-1829)
• The Quit India Movement, 1942
• Rock Garden, Chandigarh
• RSS Founder Hedgewar
• Saint Dnaneshwar (1274-1296 A.D.)
• Saint Kabir, 15th Century
• Sant Harchand Singh Longowal
• Shanker Dayal Sharma (1918-1999)
• Sister Nivedita
• Sivaji Ganesan
• South Indian Bride
• St. Andrews Church
• Stamp Honoring Tonse Madhava Anantha Pai
• Stamp Honoring Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
• Stamp Marking 25 Years of Indian Independence
• U. Kiang Nongbah
• Versatile Write P.L.Deshpande
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966)
• Wheel of the Konark Sun Temple, Orissa

See Also:

• Vintage Advertisements from India

• Artifacts of Heritage -- coins, sculptures, and other artifacts

• Indian Philately -- The stamps of India truly represent India's vast cultural and geographic diversity. Common and rare stamps from a private collection.