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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.
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
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.
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.
10 July 2006
500
Picture on stamp is of Voorhees College which is a college in Vellore, Tamil Nadu, India. The college is named after its benefactors, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Voorhees of the Reformed Church in America.
08 December 2007
500
Picture on stamp is of The Daly College which is located in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India. It was founded by Sir Henry Daly of the British Indian Army during India's colonial British Raj.
11 December 2007
500
Picture on stamp is of The Wilson College, Mumbai which was founded by the Indian missionary Rev. John Wilson, in 1832.
25 December 2007
500
Picture on stamp is of Our Lady of Snows, Shrine, Basilica. It is located at Thoothukudi, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the Catholic pilgrimage centers in India dedicated to the Our Lady of Snows, a title given to St. Mary. The Shrine name refers to the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome.
17 May 2008
500
Picture on stamp is of Tomb of Humayun who was a Mughal Emperor. The Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) is a private, not-for-profit international development agency, which was founded in 1967 by the Aga Khan.
17 May 2008
1500
Picture on stamp is of facets of social commitment of Aga Khan Foundation which is a private, not-for-profit international development agency, which was founded in 1967 by the Aga Khan.
28 November 2008
500
Picture on stamp is of Joseph's Boys High School, Bangalore. It was was founded in 1858 to offer a liberal education for the boys of European and Anglo-Indian families. It is named after St Joseph who is venerated as a saint in the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Lutheran and Methodist faiths.
02 December 2008
500
Picture on stamp is of the Evershed Effect showing Sunspot and measurement of Gas Flow. The Evershed effect, named after the British astronomer John Evershed is the radial flow of gas across the photospheric surface of the penumbra of sunspots from the inner border with the umbra towards the outer edge.
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