List of postage stamps of India

This is a list of postage stamps of India released by Department of Posts, India.

1947

# Independence

1948

# Inauguration of India - U.K.Air Service.
# First Anniversary of Independence. Mahatma Gandhi Mourning issue.

1949

# 75th Anniversary of formation of Universal Postal Union (U.P.U.)

1950

# Inauguration of Republic of India.

1951

# Centenary of Geological Survey of India.
# First Asian Games, New Delhi.

1952

# Indian Saints and Poets. Kabir, Tulsidas, Meera Bai, Surdas, Ghalib and Rabindranath

1953

# Railway Centenary.
# Conquest of Mount Everest.
# Centenary of Indian Telegraphs.

1954

# Postage Stamp Centenary.
# United Nations Day.
# Fourth World Forestry Congress.

1956

# 2,500th Buddha Jayanti.
# Birth Centenary of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak.

1957

# Indian Mutiny Centenary
# 19th International Red Cross Conference, New Delhi.
# National Children's Day.
# Centenary of Indian Universities.

1958

# 50th Anniversary of first indigenous Steel Industry.
# Birth Centenary of Dr.Dhondo Keshan Karve.
# Silver Jubilee of Indian Air Force.
# Birth Centenary of Bipin Chandra Pal.
# National Children's Day.
# Birth Centenary of Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose.
# India-1958 Exhibition, New Delhi.

1959

# Death Centenary of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy.
# 40th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation (I.L.O.).
# National Children's Day.
# First World Agriculture Fair, New Delhi.

1960

# Thiruvalluvar.
# Kalidasa.
# Subramania Bharati.
# Birth Centenary of Dr.Mokshagundam Visvesvarayya.
# National Children's Day.
# UNICEF Day.

1961

# Tyagaraja.
# 50th Anniversary of First Official Airmail Flight, Allahabad to Naini.
# Chhatrapati Shivaji.
# Motilal Nehru Birth Centenary.
# Rabindranath Tagore Birth Centenary.
# Silver Jubilee of All India Radio.
# Birth Centenary of Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy.
# National Children's Day.
# Indian Industries Fair, New Delhi.
# Centenary of Scientific Forestry.
# Centenary of Archaeological Survey of India.
# Birth Centenary of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya.

1962

# Inauguration of Gauhati Oil Refinery.
# Birth Centenary of Madame Bhikaiji Cama.
# Inauguration of Panchayati Raj in rural administration.
# Swami Dayanand Saraswati.
# Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi.
# Malaria Eradication.
# Retirement of President Dr.Rajendra Prasad.
# Centenary of High Courts.
# Birth Centenary of Ramabai Ranade.
# National Children's Day.
# 19th International Congress of Ophthalmology, New Delhi.
# 75th Birth Anniversary of Srinivasa Ramanujan.

1963

# Birth Centenary of Swami Vivekananda.
# Provisional issue.
# Freedom from Hunger.
# Red Cross Centenary.
# Defence Campaign.
# Dr.Dadabhoy Naoroji.
# Dr.Annie Besant.
# Wild Life Preservation.
# National Children's Day.
# 15th Anniversary of Declaration of Human Rights.

1964

# 26th International Orientalists Congress, New Delhi.
# Pandit Gopabandhu Das.
# 400th Death Anniversary of Purandaradasa.
# 67th Birth Anniversary of Subhas Chandra Bose.
# 85th Birth Anniversary of Sarojini Naidu.
# 20th Death Anniversary of Kasturba Gandhi.
# Dr.Waldermar Mordecai Wolff Haffkine.
# Birth Centenary of Sir Asutosh Mookerjee.
# 92nd Birth Anniversary of Sri Aurobindo.
# Raja Rammohun Roy.
# 6th General Assembly of International Organisation for Standardisation, New Delhi.
# National Children's Day.
# St.Thomas.
# 22nd International Geological Congress, New Delhi.

1965

# Jamsetji Nusserwanji Tata.
# Birth Centenary of Lala Lajpat Rai.
# 20th International Chamber of Commerce Congress, New Delhi.
# Indian Shipping.
# Death Centenary of Abraham Lincoln.
# Centenary of International Telecommunication Union.
# First Anniversary of Nehru's Death.
# International Co-operation Year.
# Indian Mount Everest Expedition.
# Pandit Govind Ballabh Pant.
# 90th Birth Anniversary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
# 95th Birth Anniversary of Deshbandhu Chittaranjan Das.
# Vidyapati Thakur.

1966

#15th Pacific Area Travel Association Conference, New Delhi.
#Valour of Indian Armed Forces in 1965 war.
#Lal Bahadur Shastri Mourning issue.
#Kambar
#75th Birth Anniversary of Dr.Binayak Rao Ambedkar.
#Babu Kunwar Singh.
#Birth Centenary of Gopal Krishna Gokhale.
#Acharya Mahavir Prasad Dvivedi.
#Maharaja Ranjit Singh.
#Dr.Homi Jehangir Bhabha.
#Maulana Abul Kalam Azad.
#60th Death Anniversary of Swami Rama Tirtha.
#National Children's Day.
#Centenary of Allahabad High Court.
#Family Planning Week.
#India's Hockey Victory in 5th Asian Games, Bangkok.

1967

#First Death Anniversary of Lal Bahadur Shastri.
#4th Indian General Election.
#300th Birth Anniversary of Guru Gobind Singh.
#International Tourist Year.
#First Death Anniversary of Acharya Nandalal Bose.
#Survey of India Bicentenary.
#800th Death Anniversary of Basaveswara.
#Narsinha Mehta.
#Maharana Pratap.
#Narayana Guru.
#Dr.Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan.
#25th Anniversary of Quit India Movement.
#Centenary of Indo-European Telegraph Service.
#World Wrestling Championships, New Delhi.
#4th Anniversary of Statehood of Nagaland.
#Rashbehari Basu.
#Diamond Jubilee of Scout Movement in India.

1968

#International Year for Human Rights.
#2nd International Conference-Seminar of Tamil Studies, Madras.
#2nd United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, New Delhi.
#Amrita Bazar Patrika Centenary.
#Birth Centenary of Maxim Gorky.
#First Triennale, New Delhi.
#Opening of 1,00,000th Post Office at Brahmpur Chaurasta, Bihar.
#Wheat Revolution.
#30th Death Anniversary of Gaganendranath Tagore.
#Birth Centenary of Lakshminath Bezbaruah.
#XIX Olympic Games, Mexico City.
#61st Birth Anniversary of Bhagat Singh.
#25th Anniversary of Azad Hind Government.
#Birth Centenary of Sister Nivedita.
#Birth Centenary of Madame Marie Curie.
#21st International Geographical Congress, New Delhi.
#400th Anniversary of Cochin Synagogue.
#I.N.S.Nilgiri.
#Indian Birds.

1969

#130th Birth Anniversary of Bankim Chandra Chatterjee.
#Birth Centenary of Dr.Bhagavan Das.
#Dr.Martin Luther King.
#Death Anniversary of Mirza Ghalib.
#50th Anniversary of Osmania University.
#20th Anniversary of 'ALL UP' Air Mail Scheme.
#50th Anniversary of International Labour Organisation.
#50th Anniversary of Jallianwala Bagh Massacre, Amritsar.
#Kasinadhuni Nageswara Rao Pantulu.
# Ardaseer Cursetjee Wadia.
#150th Anniversary of Serampore College, West Bengal.
#Dr.Zakir Hussain.
#Birth Centenary of Laxmanrao Kirloskar.
#Birth Centenary of Mahatma Gandhi.
#10th Anniversary of Inter-Governmental Maritime Consultative Oraganization.
#57th Inter-Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi.
#First Man on the Moon.
#500th Birth Anniversary of Guru Nanak Dev.
#International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources Conference, New Delhi.
#90th Birth Anniversary of Sadhu T.L.Visvani.
#Birth Centenary of Thakkar Bapa.

1970

#12th Plenary Assembly of International Radio Consultative Committee (CCIR).
#First Death Anniversary of Conjeevaram Natarajan Annadurai.
#75th Death Anniversary of Munshi Newal Kishore.
#Centenary of Nalanda College.
#Swami Shraddhanand.
#Birth Centenary of Vladimir Illyich Lenin.
#New Universal Postal Union Headquarters Building, Berne.
#425th Death Anniversary of Sher Shah Suri.
#Vinayak Damodar Savarkar.
#25th Anniversary of United Nations Organisation.
#Asian Productivity Year.
#International Education Year (Birth Centenary of Dr.Maria Montessori).
#Jatindra Nath Mukherjee (Bagha Jatin).
#Valangaiman Sankaranarayana Srinivasa Sastri.
#150th Birth Anniversary of Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar.
#Maharsi Valmiki (Author of Epic Ramayana).
#Centenary of Calcutta Port Commissioner.
#50th Anniversary of Jamia Millia Islamia University, Delhi.
#Jamnalal Bajaj.
#50th Anniversary of Indian Red Cross Society.
#700th Birth Anniversary of Sant Namdeo.
#Birth Bicentenary of Ludwig van Beethoven.
#India National Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi.
#Diamond Jubilee of Girl Guide Movement in India.

1971

#Centenary of Indian Life Insurance.
#Golden Jubilee of Kashi Vidyapith.
#Sant Ravidas.
#Birth Centenary of Deenabandhu Charles Freer Andrews.
#15th Death Anniversary of Acharya Narendra Deo.
#Census Centenary.
#Sri Ramana Maharshi.
#65th Death Anniversary of Raja Ravi Varma.
#Birth Centenary of Dadasaheb Phalke.
#Birth Centenary of Abanindranath Tagore.
#Swami Virjanand.
#2,500th Anniversary of Charter of Cyrus the Great.
#World Thrift Day.
#25th Anniversary United Nations Educational and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO).
#National Children's Day.
#1st Death Anniversary of Dr.Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman.
#Golden Jubilee of Visva Bharati University, Shantiniketan, West Bengal.
#Indian Cricket Victories against West Indies and England.

1972

#First Anniversary of Arvi Satellite Earth Station.
#Silver Jubilee of Indian Standards Institute (ISI).
#50th Anniversary of International Union of Railways.
#XX Olympic Games, Munich.
#Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo.
#25th Anniversary of Independance.
#Greetings to Armed Forces on Silver Jubilee of Independence.
#Birth Centenary of Bhai Vir Singh.
#Birth Centenary of Tanguturi Prakasham.
#300th Birth Anniversary of Vemana.
#Birth Centenary of Bertrand Russell.
#Asia-72: 3rd Asian International Trade Fair, New Delhi.
#First Death Anniversary of Dr.Vikram Ambalal Sarabai.
#50th Anniversary of USSR.

1973

#'INDIPEX 73', International Stamp Exhibition, New Delhi.
#25th Anniversary of Independence.
#Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa.
#First Anniversary of Army Postal Service Corps.
#'Jai Bangla', Inauguration of First Bangladesh Parliament.
#Birth Centenary of Kumaran Asan.
#Homage to Martyrs for Independence.
#Dr.Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar.
#Indian Miniature Paintings.
#15th Anniversary of Indian Mountaineering Foundation, New Delhi.
#25th Anniversary of Air India's International Services.
#19th Death Anniversary of St.Thomas.
#Death Centenary of Michael Madhusudan Dutt.
#Birth Centenary of Vishnu Digambar Paluskar.
#Centenary of Discovery of Leprosy Bacillus.
#5th Birth Centenary of Nicolaus Copernicus.
#Allan Octavian Hume.
#Homage to Gandhi and Nehru on 25th Anniversary of Independence.
#Romesh Chunder Dutt.
#K.S.Ranjitsinhji.
#Birth Centenary of Vithalbhai Patel.
#Bicentenary of President's Bodyguard.
#50th Anniversary of Interpol (International Criminal Police Organisation).
#Syed Ahmad Khan.
#National Children's Day.
#'INDIPEX - 73', India International Philatelic Exhibition, New Delhi.
#Silver Jubilee of National Cadet Corps, (NCC).
#First Death Anniversary of Chakravarti Rajagopalachari.

1974

#Indian Masks used in Dance Drama.
#300th Anniversary of Coronation of Chatrapati Shri Shivaji Maharaj.
#Maithili Sharan Gupta.
#Jainarain Vyas.
#Utkal Gourab Madhusudan Das
#Kandukuri Veeresalingam.
#Tipu Sultan.
#Max Muller.
#75th Birth Anniversary of Kamala Nehru.
#World Population Year.
#Varahagiri Venkata Giri.
#Centenary of Universal Postal Union.
#Centenary of Mathura Museum.
#Birth Centenary of Nicholas Roerich.
#2500th Anniversary of Bhagwan Mahavira's attainment of Nirvana.
#National Children's Day.
#25th Anniversary of UNICEF in India.
#25th Anniversary of Indian Territorial Army.
#19th International Dairy Congress, New Delhi.
#Help for Mentally Retarded Children.
#Birth Centenary of Guglielmo Marconi.
#Saint Francis Xavier's Apostle Celebration.

1975

#World Hindi Convention, Nagpur.
#25th Anniversary of the Republic.
#33rd World Table Tennis Championships, Calcutta.
#International Women's Year.
#Bicentenary of Indian Army Ordnance Corps.
#Centenary of Arya Samaj.
#World Telugu Conference, Hyderabad.
#Launch of First Indian Satellite.
#Indian Birds: Pitta brachyura, Oriolus xanthomus, Tragopan melanocephalus and Lophophorus impejamus.
#4th Centenary of Ramcharitmanas (epic poem by Tulsidas).
#Centenary of Indian Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA).
#500th Birth Anniversary of Michelangelo Buonarroti.
#25th Anniversary of International Commission on Irrigation and Drainage.
#Satellite Instructional Television Experiment.
#600th Birth Anniversary of Sant Arunagirinathar.
#Namibia Day.
#Mir Anees.
#Ahilyabai Holkar.
#Indian Classical Dances: Bharata Natyam, Orissi, Kathak, Kathakali, Kuchipudi and Manipuri.
#Ameer Khusrau.
#Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon.
#Bahadur Shah Zafar.
#21st Commonwealth Parliamentary Conference, New Delhi.
#Birth Centenary of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.
#Birth Centenary of Karmavir Nabin Chandra Bardoloi.
#National Children's Day.
#50th Anniversary of India Security Press, Nasik.
#Tercentenary of the martyrdom of Guru Tegh Bahadur.
#Centenary of the Theosophical Society.
#Centenary of the Indian Meteorological Department.
#'INPEX-75' India National Philatelic Exhibition, Calcutta.

1976

#First Death Anniversary of Lalit Narayan Mishra.
#Birth Centenary of Edward James (Jim) Corbett.
#Keoladeo Ghana Bird Sanctuary, Bharatpur.
#Bicentenary of 16th Light Cavalry Regiment.
#Alexander Graham Bell.
#Birth Centenary of Muthuswami Dikshitar.
#World Health Day. Prevention of Blindness.
#Industrial Development.
#Indian Locomotives.
#Bicentenary of American Revolution.
#Kumaraswamy Kamaraj.
#XXI Olympic Games, Montreal.
#Subhadra Kumari Chauhan.
#Param Vir Chakra (Highest Gallantry Award).
#60th Anniversary of Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University, Bombay.
#Bharatendu Harishchandra.
#Birth Centenary of Sarat Chandra Chatterji.
#Family Planning Campaign.
#Maharaja Agrasen.
#Indian Wild Life: Swamp Deer, Indian Lion, Leopard and Caracal.
#Voluntary Blood Donation.
#Suryakant Tripathi 'Nirala'.
#National Children's Day.
#Hiralal Shastri.
#Dr.Hari Singh Gour.
#Inauguration of Indian Airlines Airbus Service.
#Diamond Jubilee of Coconut Research.
#Centenary of 'Vande Mataram'.

1977

References

*Phila India 2008 Guide book (1800-2007).