Portuguese
India
stamps
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Portuguese India
was the aggregate of Portugal's colonial
holdings in India. At the time of India's independence in 1947, Portuguese India
included a number of enclaves on India's
western coast, including Goa proper, as well as the coastal enclaves of Daman
and Diu, and the enclaves of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, which lie inland from Daman. The territories of Portuguese India were sometimes
referred to collectively as Goa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_India

Scott: #520-1O
Issued: 25.10.1952
400th Death Anniversary of St.
Francis Xavier
Inside #520-1: Portuguese India #464O/#476O (B)

Scott: #521aO
See: Saint Francis Xavier, SJ (1506-1552) - Patron Saint of
Missions
http://www.manresa-sj.org/stamps/1_Xavier.htm

Scott: #522-3O
Issued: 4.12.1952
Goa Stamp
Exhibition
Inside #522:
Portuguese India
#1O
http://www.filatelicamente.online.pt/l001/l001_06i.html
Inside #523: Portuguese India #464O/#476O (B)

Scott: #523aO
The first
postage stamps of Portuguese India were issued 1 October 1871. These were
purely local, and stamps of British India were
also needed for overseas mail. The design of these first stamps simply
consisted of a denomination in the center, with an oval band containing the
inscriptions "SERVICO POSTAL" and "INDIA POST". The dies
were recut several times, and printed on several kinds of paper, resulting in
an extremely complicated situation that has been intensively studied; about 55
types have been identified as appearing between 1871 and 1877, some of them
quite rare. http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/p/po/portuguese_india.htm

Scott: #527O
Issued: 3.10.1953
Centenary of Portuguese Stamps
Inside #527: Portugal #1O
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