Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
INDIA, the tricolour flag and जयहिन्द.
- 1जयहिन्द
- 2INDIA
- Inscription
- जयहिन्द · 15 AUG. 1947 · POSTAGE · INDIA
- Meaning
- INDIA in large letters, and Jai Hind (जयहिन्द) in Hindi.
- Issued by
- Dominion of India
- Today
- India Flag of India
- Year
- 1947. Issued 21 November 1947.
One fact
The 3½-anna flag stamp, issued on 21 November 1947, was the first stamp of independent India.
Source and public-domain rule
India, Government work published more than 60 years ago. Government work published 1947. Copyright in a Government work, where the Government is the first owner, lasts sixty years from the beginning of the year after first publication. Indian postage stamps are made by or under the direction of the Government. Legal sources: Copyright Act 1957, s. 28 (Government works.
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