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On the Stamp
A Mughal painting of the Madonna holding a book, from the time of Jahangir, beside a page of Persian script.
The Rampur Raza Library
India Post issued four ₹5 stamps and a ₹20 miniature sheet on 19 June 2009 on the Rampur Raza Library in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, a repository of Indo-Islamic cultural heritage built up from the last decades of the eighteenth century by the Nawabs of Rampur and named after Nawab Raza Ali Khan. Now managed by the Government of India, it holds manuscripts, historical documents, Islamic calligraphy, miniature paintings, astronomical instruments and illustrated works in Arabic and Persian. India Post’s brochure for this issue is not online, so this text draws on Wikipedia and on the stamps themselves.
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