The Stamps of India

Page Last Updated: February 17, 2024

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.

Stamps of India

• 100 Years of Railways to Doon Valley
• 1971 Cricket Victories of Indian Team
• Ba-Bapu -- The Gandhi Couple
• Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj
• Composer Shyama Shastri
• Cricketer C.K. Nayudu
• Dancing Girls
• Emperor Chandragupta Maurya
• First Day Cover of Mangroves Stamps
• Gandhi Centenary 1869-1969
• General Zorawar Singh (1786-1841 A.D.)
• Indian International Stamp Exhibition
• Indian Postage Stamp Honoring Art of Jamini Roy
• Industrialist Jamsetji Tata (1838-1904)
• Industrialist Dhirubhai Ambani
• Institution of Engineers, India
• Jawaharlal Nehru Centenary
• Jayaprakash Narayan
• Keshav Chandra Sen
• Mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan
• Music Maestro Tansen
• Muthuswami Dikshitar ( 1775-1835)
• Panchatantra on Postage
• Poet Ameer Khusru (1253-1325)
• Portrait of Annadurai
• Raja Annamalai Chettiyar (1881-1948)
• Republic of India, 1950
• The Royal Elephant Ride
• S. M. Zamin Ali
• Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel
• Scottish Church College, Kolkota
• Stamp Commemorating the Festival of India
• Stamp Commemorating XIII Olympiad
• Stamps on Medicinal Plants of India
• Steam Engine
• Tagore Stamp
• William Carey (1761-1834)

More Stamps from Indian Stamp Database

• Albert Einstein Stamp
• Amaravati Sculpture
• The Amla Plant -- Emblica officinalis
• Arjuna Shoots Rotating Fish by Aiming at the Reflection
• Artist Uday Shankar
• Ashokan Lions
• Ashwagandha - Withania somnifera
• B.R. Ambedkar
• Baba Kanshi Ram (1882 - 1943)
• Babu Rajendra Prasad
• Bankim Chandra Chatterjee (1838-1894)
• The Bengal Tiger
• Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
• Bhagawadgeeta Postage
• Bhikaiji Cama (1861-1936)
• The Bhil Tribe
• The Brahmi Plant -- Bacopa monnieri
• Bridal Jewelry, India
• Capra Falconeri
• Carrier of the Flag
• Century and a Half of Indian Railways
• Chandra Shekhar Azad, Revolutionary, Freedom Fighter
• Chettur Sankaran Nair
• Composer Purandaradasa (15/16th Century)
• Conference on Apiculture
• Dadabhoy Naoroji (1825-1917)
• Dandami Maria
• Disabled Persons
• 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 Featuring Heroes of Nationalism
• First Day Cover Featuring P.L. Deshpande
• First Day Cover Marking the Festival of Buddha Mahotsav
• First day Envelope Honoring Lala Lajpatrai
• First Day Cover of Stamp Honoring Leo Tolstoy
• A First Day Release Envelope
• First Day Cover os Stamps Honoring Jnanapith Award Winners
• First Stamps of Independent India
• First Stamp of Independent India
• First War of Indian Independence
• Franklin D. Roosevelt
• Freedom Fighter Udham Singh
• G. Sankara Kurup (1901-1978)
• Ghanshyam Das Birla (1894-1983)
• Giani Zail Singh
• Great Poets (Surdas, Ghalib and Rabindranath)
• Guggulu Tree -- Comniphora wighitii
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan (1907-2003)
• Heinrich Von Stephan (1831-1897)
• Hijri - Islamic Calendar
• Hirakud Dam Across River Mahanadi
• Homage to Martyrs
• "In Waiting"
• India Gate New Delhi
• Indian Postal Stamp of Gilgit Records
• Indian Stamp Featuring the Fort of Agra
• Indian Stamp for Olympics
• Indian Stamp Honoring Laxmibai of Jhansi
• Indira Gandhi at the United Nations
• Indo-Soviet Joint Manned Space Flight
• International Year of the Child 1979.
• Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar (1820-1891)
• Jhalkari Bai
• Jnanapith Award Winners in Kannada
• Kannada First Day Envelope
• Kathakali Stamp
• Krishna Nath Sarmah
• The Lion and the Rabbit
• Madan Mohan Malaviya (1861- 1946)
• Madhubani - Mithila Painting
• Mail Boxes of India
• Medieval Lady Scholar
• Megha-Doot, the Cloud Messenger
• The Mother Pondicherry
• Mother Teresa and the Nobel Prize of 1979
• Mother Teresa
• Musician Tyagaraja
• N. T. Rama Rao
• Nana Sahib -- Detail from an Indian Stamp
• Nellie Sengupta and Jatindra Mohan Sengupta
• Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose
• Painting by Amrita Sher Gil
• Panchatantra: Crocodile and the Monkey
• Pather Panchali and Oscar for Satyajit Ray
• Picture of Thiruvalluvar
• Poet Surdas (1479-1586)
• Poet Tulasidas (1533-1624)
• Poetess Meerabai
• Postage Stamp of Nataraja
• President V.V. Giri
• President Zakir Husain (1897-1969)
• The Pride of India Stamp Collection
• Queen Avantibai
• Queen of Kittur, Channamma (1778-1829)
• The Quit India Movement, 1942
• Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)
• Rani Avatibai
• Rani Rashmoni (1793 - 1861)
• Ranoli Stamps of India
• Rao Tularam, a Hero of 1857 War of Independence
• The Red Fort, Delhi
• Rock Garden, Chandigarh
• RSS Founder Hedgewar
• Saint Dnaneshwar (1274-1296 A.D.)
• Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552)
• Saint Kabir, 15th Century
• Sant Harchand Singh Longowal
• Shanker Dayal Sharma (1918-1999)
• Sister Nivedita
• Sivaji Ganesan
• South Indian Bride
• St. Andrews Church
• Stamp Commemorating Swaraj
• Stamp Honoring Tonse Madhava Anantha Pai
• Stamp Honoring Rukmini Devi Arundale
• Stamp Honoring N.T. Rama Rao
• Stamp Honoring M.V. Visweswariah
• Stamp Honoring Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
• Stamp Honoring Marie Curie
• Stamp Honoring Sage Valmiki
• Stamp Honoring Helen Keller
• Stamp Honoring Maharana Pratap
• Stamp Marking Children's Day
• Stamp Marking 150 Years of Indian Postal Service
• Stamp Marking 25 Years of Indian Independence
• Stamp Marking the First Asian Games, 1951
• Stamp of Agra Fort
• Stamp of J.R.D. Tata
• Stamp of Morarji Desai
• Stamps Celebrating the Festival of Buddha
• Stamps Reflecting the Anna Currency
• Subhadra Kumari Chauhan (1904-1948)
• Swamp Deer
• Table Tennis Stamp
• The Tortoise and the Geese
• Trade Unionist N. M. Joshi
• U. Kiang Nongbah
• Ulloor Parameswara Iyer
• The Vande Mataram Stamp
• Versatile Write P.L.Deshpande
• Vinayak Damodar Savarkar (1883-1966)
• Visveswaraya Centennial Stamp
• Welthy Fisher (1879-1980)
• Western Tragopan
• Wheel of the Konark Sun Temple, Orissa
• World Cup Football

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.