#IndianCurrency

The Intriguing History of the Indian Rupee.
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Historical Coin of Raja PrithviRaj Chauhan (Prithvi Raja III) of #ChahamanasDynasty or #ChauhanDynasry of Ajmer & Delhi.

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A silver coin of 1 karshapana of King Mahapadma Nanda (345-321 BCE).

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C 1876": Historical Map of Sikkim in northeastern India extracted from map prepared by Trelawney Saunders.
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#SikkimFoundationDay

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Tributes to Shaheed-e-Azam #BhagatSingh and Shaheed #Sukhdev & #Rajguru, on their #ShaheedDiwas.

A commemorative postage stamp was issued in 1968 on #BhagatSingh.

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C. 1886 Map of #Indochina,
from the Scottish Geographical Magazine.

Indochina name refers to the lands historically within the cultural influence of India & China, and physically bound by the Indian Subcontinent in the west and China in the north.

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This Postage Stamp was issued in 1951 to mark the centenary of The #GeologicalSurveyOfIndia, It depicts #StegodonGanesa, a mammal found in the Siwalik Hills of India 5.3 to 1.8 million years ago. It is a distantly related to the mammoth and the modern elephant.
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Tribute to the great visionary leader and the first President of India Dr. #RajendraPrasad Ji on his death anniversary.

A commemorative postage stamp was issued on Dr. Rajendra Prasad on 13-05-1962.
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A Commemorative postage stamp was issued on the death anniversary of Legendary Revolutionary #ChandraShekharAzad on Feb. 27, 1988.

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A special set of postage stamps on 50th anniversary of #IndoPakWar1965 'Valour & Sacrifice - issued on 15 Sep. 2015.

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Map of #Baluchistan.
Imperial Gazetteer of India (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1908-1931)
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The #BrahmiScript is the earliest writing system developed in India after the #IndusScript. It is one of the most influential writing systems.

All modern #IndianScripts & most of the scripts found in Southeast Asia are derived from Brahmi.

Example of Brahmi written in #Prakrit.

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A Commemorative Postage Stamp issued in 1961 on Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj, founder of the Great #MarathaEmpire.

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#ShivajiJayanti

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#DidYouKnow?
The World's first Air Mail was started in India from Allahabad to Naini during the #MahaKumbh.
World's 1st official #Airmail flight service began in India on 18th Feb 1911.

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Portuguese Colonial Dominions in India and the Malay Archipelago. Between 1498-1650.
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Tribute to '#BharatKokila' #SarojiniNaidu on her birth anniversary. A great poet and #FreedomFighter.

13-02-1964: A commemorative postage stamp issued on the 85th Birth Anniversary of Sarojini Naidu.
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A Commemorative postage stamp issued in 1962 on #SwamiDayanandSaraswati, the founder of #AryaSamaj.

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C.1975s:: Stamps released on the occasion of World Hindi Convention & World Telugu Conference, Both these stamps depict the photograph of the12th century image of Goddess Saraswati.
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c.1860s:: One of the Historic map of #India, showing ''#Hindoostan & #FartherIndia by Mitchell Jr.

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The #IndusScript is the writing system developed by the #IndusValleyCivilization and it is the earliest form of writing known in the Indian subcontinent, which date back to the early 3rd millennium BC. This writing system remains undeciphered thus far.

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1858s:: Map of The #BengalPresidency, later reorganized as the #BengalProvince was once the largest subdivision of #BritishIndia.

At its peak, the presidency extended from the present day #KhyberPakhtunkhwa in the west to Burma, Singapore and Penang in the east. 
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