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Miscellaneous Philately Themes Themes Associated with Foreigners on Indian Stamps
Themes Associated with Foreigners on Indian Stamps
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24 February 2006
500
Picture on stamp is of St. Bede's College, Shimla. St. Bede's College is a women's college located in Shimla, Himachal Pradesh, India.The college was named after St. Bede who was an English monk.
28 November 2004
1500
Picture on stamp is of Mussaman Burj & Amar Singh Gate. Musamman Burj was built by Mughal King Shah Jahan for his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. It is is an octagonal tower standing close to the Shah Jahan's private hall Diwan-e-Khas in Agra Fort. Amar Singh Gate was named after Amar Singh Rathore who was a Rajput nobleman affiliated with the royal house of Marwar and a courtier of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in seventeenth-century India.
28 November 2004
1500
Picture on stamp is of Khas Mahal, Agra Fort. The Khas Mahal served as the Mughal emperor's private residence in Delhi. The structure is located inside the Red Fort, which is a large fort complex located inside the city
29 May 2003
1500
Picture on stamp is of Mt. Everest. Sir Edmund Hillary was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.
26 May 2002
400
Picture on stamp is of Cotton College which was declared open on May 27, 1901 by Sir Henry Stedman Cotton, K.C.S.I., the then-chief commissioner of the erstwhile British province of Assam. The college was named after Sir Henry, as "Cotton College", in appreciation of his genuine concern for the cause of higher education in the province.
12 April 2001
1500
Picture on stamp is of Yuri Gagarin & Rockets. He was a Russian-Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
12 January 2001
1500
Picture on stamp is of St. Aloysius with children. He was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus.
12 August 2000
300
Picture on stamp is of Chapel in Medical College and Hospital, Vellor, Tamilnadu. It was founded in 1900 by an American missionary, Dr Ida S. Scudder who was a third-generation American medical missionary in India of the Reformed Church in America. In 1918, she started one of Asia's foremost teaching hospitals, the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India.
25 December 1999
300
Picture on stamp is of Rising Sun, Globe & Hand inside Flame in front of Cross.
07 May 1999
300
Picture on stamp is of Bethune School & J. F. D. School. It is a women's college in India. It was founded as a school in 1849 by John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune who was a barrister and law member of the Governor-General's Council. He was an Anglo-Indian lawyer and a pioneer in promoting women's education in 19th-century India.
30 November 1998
300
Picture on stamp is of Sir David Sasoon & Library, Bombay. The idea for a library to be situated in the center of the city was the brainchild of Albert Sassoon, son of the famous Baghdadi Jewish philanthropist, David Sassoon.
04 October 1997
200
Picture on stamp is of Lawrence School, Sanawar. It is an independent private preparatory co-educational boarding school near Chandigarh. The school, founded in 1847 by Sir Henry Lawrence and his wife Honoria, is one of Asia's oldest surviving boarding schools.
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