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150th Anniversary of La Martiniere College, Lucknow

01 October 1995

200

Picture on stamp is of La Martiniere College, Lucknow.It was founded by an endowment from the wealthy eighteenth-century Frenchman, Major-General Claude Martin (1735–1800), who was an officer in the French and later the British East India Company.

100 Years of Cardiac Surgery

25 February 1996

500

Picture on stamp is of suturing of a Heart wound & Cardiac Transplantation. The first surgery on the heart itself was performed by Norwegian surgeon Axel Cappelen on 4 September 1895 at Rikshospitalet in Kristiania, now Oslo.

150 Years of Anaesthesia

27 December 1996

500

Picture on stamp is of Victorian Doctors performing operation. In 1847, Scottish obstetrician James Young Simpson (1811–1870) of Edinburgh was the first to use chloroform as a general anesthetic.

St. Andrew's Church, Egmore, Chennai

25 February 1997

800

Picture on stamp is of St. Andrew's Church, Egmore, Chennai. St. Andrew was a Christian Apostle and the brother of Saint Peter.

150th Anniversary of The Lawrence School, Sanawar

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.

David Sassoon Library and Reading Room, Bombay

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.

150th Anniversary of Bethune Collegiate School, Calcutta

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.

2000th Birth Anniversary of Jesus Christ

25 December 1999

300

Picture on stamp is of Rising Sun, Globe & Hand inside Flame in front of Cross.

Centenary of Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellor, Tamilnadu

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.

Centenary of Paintings in St. Aloysius College Chapel, Mangalore

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.

40th Anniversary of Man's First Space Flight

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.

Centenary of Cotton College, Guwahati

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.