Articles on Indian Philately

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The Stamps of the Feudatory States- by H. D. S. Haverbeck
The Collectors Club Philatelist - Vol. XXXV, No. IV

"With this, the COLLECTORS CLUB PHILATELIST will start a new series of articles on the stamps of the feudatory states of India........"

Morvi Fancy Markings - by Kusum and Dhirubhai Mehta
Source unknown

"An interesting, colourful and unusual marking is used on a registered 6-pies stamped green envelope from Morvi. The cover also bears a registration........"

Stamps of British India used in Persia - by Cornel Kmentt
The American Philatelist - September 1962 - Vol. 75, No. 12

"An essay, "Japanese Stamps used in Korea" was published in the August 1962 issue of the American Philatelist. I was the author of that essay and in conclusion I referred to the correspondence of my parents, who at about the same time were using native Persian as well as British India mail services"

An Indian Airmail Rarity - by Grosvenor W. Bissell M.D.
The American Philatelist - May 1963 - Vol. 76, No. 8

"Sometime between Oct. 22, 1929, and Nov 1, 1929, the Security Printing Press of Nasik, India, produced a series of airpost stamps to be used on letter mail to England. These were supposedly first postally used Nov. 12, 1929....."

The Story of Gandhi Stamps - by T. N. Mehta
American Philatelist - August 1980

"On January 21, 1980, when Jawaharlal Nehru was Prime Minister of India and Rafi Ahmed Kidwai held the Communications Office, the Director General, Posts and Telegraphs (P&T) sent a letter to Security Printing........"

Germany, Japan supported an end to British India - by David L. Straight (Coming Soon!!)
Stamp Collector - June 18th 2001

"The semipostal stamps shown below in Figure 1, with a map of the Indian subcontinent flanked by swords with the broken chains of colonialism........"

Stamps honor Gandhi and spinning of cotton - by Barbara L. Anderson (Coming Soon!!)
Linn's Stamp News - December 22nd 2003

"India and many other countries have issued stamps honoring Mahatma Gandhi, who is remembered primarily as the father of Indian independence."

Indian-French stamps voted best joint-issue of 2003
Linn's Stamp News - June 28th 2004

"A joint issue between France and India  was chosen by members of the International Philatelic  Society of Joint Stamp Issues Collectors as the best joint issue of 2003."

Polo and pigsticking: feudatory states stamps - by Rick Miller  (Coming Soon!!)
Linn's Stamp News - July 26th 2004

"Do you like exotic stamps? Are you looking for a new classic collecting area that will give you a break from the seemingly endless proliferation of new issues?"

Portuguese India provides interest, challenge - by Michael Rogers 
Linn's Stamp News - September 20th 2004

"Vasco de Gama made the Portuguese entry into India. He left Portugal July 4th 1497, discovered the sea route to India and made landfall May 20, 1498 at Calicut. On Dec 18th 1961, the Republic of India..........

India honors the classical dances of the nation- by Daniel Keren 
Source unknown - written sometime in the mid to late 1970s

"Spread throughout a territory of approximately 1,200,000 square miles with a population that is rapidly approaching the 700 million mark, the giant land of India dominates the entire Asian subcontinent........."

Bundi - The Sacred Cow Issue, 1915-1941- by Robert Goldberg 
S.P.A Journal - April 1968

"Stamps of the Indian Native States have had a long history of neglect, chiefly because of difficulties in classification and the limited amount of material available........."

King George VI 1 1/2 and 3 Annas - by G. C. Horsman 
The American Philatelist - May 1961 - Vol. 74, No. 8

"This illustrated study details the George VI 1 1/2 and 3-anna stamps of India (Scott 172a and 174).........."

India Celebrates Airmail's Golden Jubilee 
The American Philatelist - March 1970 - Vol. 84, No. 3

"India, which claims a first for inaugurating the world's first airmail service, celebrated the occasion of its airpost' s golden jubilee with the issuance of three commemorative stamps, a re-enactment of that historic flight of 1911........."

Collecting the Classics - by Harold Yost 
Source unknown

"Once upon a time I had an idea that the "classics" were out of my reach as far as my pocketbook was concerned. I wanted to collect them........."

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