Elephant in Indian Philately
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2016
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Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka
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The aim and objective of this paper is to critically study the presence of an elephant in pre-independent and post independent philatelic history of India.
In pre independent Indian philately, postal stamps were printed on paper watermarked with an elephant’s head from 1865 to 1876. In 1895, Sirmoor, a feudatory state issued stamps featuring an elephant.
As far as post independent Indian philately is concerned elephant appeared on 2 definitive and 11 commemorative stamps as well as on some cancellations.
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Vartak, A.V. and Vartak, R. 2016. Elephant in Indian Philately. In: International Conference on Asian Elephants in Culture & Nature, 20th – 21st August 2016, Anura Manatunga, K.A.T. Chamara, Thilina Wickramaarachchi and Harini Navoda de Zoysa (Eds.), (Abstract) p 86, Centre for Asian Studies, University of Kelaniya, Sri Lanka. 180 pp.