The End Of India’s Princely States
(Specially written for “The Press” by KENNETH ANTHONY.) TNDIA has produced a sucx cession of stamps in recent years showing the portraits of various Indian statesmen, philosophers and poets —some of them little remembered outside India. This one, however, deserves more than passing attention from stamp collectors for it shows a man whose life work culminated in the disappearance of no less than 15 stampissuing authorities. Apart from the provinces of British India, the old Indian Empire included a large number of princely states large and small, the rulers of which retained a high degree of autonomy. About 30 of these at various times issued their own stamps —among them some of the world’s strangest and most exotic designs—and ten were still doing so at the time of Indian independence in 1947. Such stamps were valid only within the state of issue; on mail to other parts of India, and to other countries, the ordinary Indian stamps were used. There was also a
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 12
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169The End Of India’s Princely States Press, Volume CV, Issue 31007, 12 March 1966, Page 12
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