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Since millennia, India has been a magnet attracting those seeking fortune and name. The wave of foreigners coming in accelerated in the 16th century with the discovery and development of the all-sea route from Europe via the Cape of Good Hope. In the anarchy following the collapse of the Mughal Empire in the first half…
Sometime back, I was browsing an old 1988 Stanley Gibbons auction catalogue featuring the ‘Springer’ Collections (Figure 1). A claim is made inside: The lots of the Indian Army P.O. included in this catalogue form probably the most comprehensive study of this service ever formed. Indeed, it contains many Indian Army postal history items –…
