- Azad Hind stamps
includes these six unused Azad Hind Stamps in its commemorative book "India's Freedom Struggle through India Postage Stamps".cite web
author = Bhaskaran, S.T
publisher = The Hindu
url=http://www.hindu.com/2000/12/16/stories/13161109.htm
title= Footprints of history
accessdate=2007-10-16] These are currently listed on the GermanMichel catalog .A concept of
Subhas Chandra Bose , the stamps were designed by Werner and Maria von Axster-Heudtlass, who also created many German issues between 1925 and 1949, and show themes depicted on ten denominations. The designs are
* 1+1 Anna design depicting an Indian Sikh soldier firing a German MG34 machine gun.
* 1/2, 1 and 2+2 Annas design, which shows aplough and a peasant plowing a field in the background.
* 2-1/2, and 2-1/2-2-1/2 Annas design, which shows an Indian woman spinning cloth on acharkha .
* 3+3 Anna design depicting a nurse comforting a wounded soldier.
* 8+12, 12 Anna +1Rupee design depicting breaking chains on a map of India.
* 1+2Rupee , which shows an Indian soldier and two Germans with the flag of Azad Hind.All stamps were printed by
photogravure in sheets of 100 at the "Reichsdruckerei", the Government Printing Bureau inBerlin . A million copies of the lower denominations were produced, with a further half million of the higher values, except for the 1 and 2 Rupee stamp, of which only 13,500 were printed. All the stamps exist in different colors and have the word Azad Hind printed. The first seven stamps aresemipostal s, with the surcharge for the administration of Andaman andNicobar Islands then underJapan ese control. Three were regulars. A set of 21 stamps currently exist, both perforated (10 mm x 12 mm) and unperforated.Notes
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November 21 2007 .
*" [http://axis101.bizland.com/IndianStamps.htm Indian Legion Stamps and Postal History] " in "Introduction to Foreign Legion Stamps and Postal History".
*Ann Mette Heindorff. " [http://shoebox.heindorffhus.dk/frame-IndiaBose.htm Subhas Chandra Bose: India's Fight for Independence during WWII] " in "Heindorffhus Shoebox", 2007.
*" [http://stampsworldindia.com/azadhind.htm The Azad Hind Stamps] " in "Stamps World India".
*Andrew Freeston. " [http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Park/6286/cinderella.html Indian Cinderellas - Azad Hind Issues] ."ee also
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*Indian National Army
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