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Centenary of Paintings in St. Aloysius College Chapel, Mangalore

12 January 2001

1500

Picture on stamp is of St. Aloysius with children. He was an Italian aristocrat who became a member of the Society of Jesus.

Centenary of Fergusson College

02 January 1985

100

Picture on stamp is of Fergusson College which is named after Scottish born Sir James Fergusson, the Governor of Bombay.

Centenary of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway

18 December 1982

285

Picture on stamp is of Darjeeling Himalayan Railway which is also known as the "Toy Train" and which is a narrow gauge railway that runs between New Jalpaiguri and Darjeeling in the Indian state of West Bengal, India. It was built in British time between 1879 and 1881.

Centenary of Cotton College, Guwahati

26 May 2002

400

Picture on stamp is of Cotton College which was declared open on May 27, 1901 by Sir Henry Stedman Cotton, K.C.S.I., the then-chief commissioner of the erstwhile British province of Assam. The college was named after Sir Henry, as "Cotton College", in appreciation of his genuine concern for the cause of higher education in the province.

Centenary of Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellor, Tamilnadu

12 August 2000

300

Picture on stamp is of Chapel in Medical College and Hospital, Vellor, Tamilnadu. It was founded in 1900 by an American missionary, Dr Ida S. Scudder who was a third-generation American medical missionary in India of the Reformed Church in America. In 1918, she started one of Asia's foremost teaching hospitals, the Christian Medical College & Hospital, Vellore, India.

Centenary of Bethune College

04 September 1978

Picture on stamp is of Bethune College, Calcutta which was established by Colonel John Drinkwater Bethune who was an English army officer and military historian.

Calcutta University

31 December 1957

10np

Picture on stamp is of Calcutta University whose first Chancellor and Vice-Chancellor were Governor General Lord Canning and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Sir James William Colvile, respectively and both were British citizens.

Calcutta Tricentenary

28 December 1990

600

Picture on stamp is of 18th Century Shipping on the Ganges & old Fort William.

Bombay University

31 December 1957

10np

Picture on stamp is of Rajabai Tower of Bombay University which was established by John Wilson, a British Missionery

Bishop Cotton School, Shimla

06 October 2009

500

Picture on stamp is of Bishop Cotton School, Shimla. Bishop Cotton School, Shimla, (Himachal Pradesh, India) is one of the oldest boarding schools for boys in Asia, having been founded on 28 July 1859, by Bishop George Edward Lynch Cotton

Birth Centenary of Pablo Picasso (Artist)

15 March 1982

285

Picture on stamp is of painting of 'Three Musicians' painted by Pablo Picasso who was was a Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, stage designer, poet and playwright who spent most of his adult life in France.

Bicentenary of Asiatic Society, Calcutta

15 January 1984

100

Picture on stamp is of Old Society Building with the picture of founder Sir William Jones who was an Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among Indo-European languages.