An important documentary archive relating to the publication, international circulation, censorship and prosecution of Mahatma Gandhi’s pamphlet My Appeal to the British , edited and published by Anand T. Hingorani in August 1942, comprising a substantial group of typed circular letters; wartime postal envelopes; distribution instructions; carbon copies; legal documents; and the complete typed judgement in Crown vs Anand Tolaram Hingorani , Case No. 118 of 1942, delivered by the...
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Rs 4,00,000 - 6,00,000
Commemorative Gandhi Jayanti greeting booklet crafted in khadi cloth, incorporating a portrait of Mahatma Gandhi and a handwritten Gandhian moral reflection in Hindi with English translation beneath. India, 1945.
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Rs 4,00,000 - 6,00,000
A group of five hand-spun and handwoven khadi Gandhi caps (topis), personally gifted by Mahatma Gandhi to Anand T Hingorani, comprising two natural beige examples and three off-white examples, each executed in finely woven khadi cotton and constructed in the characteristic folded nationalist form associated with Gandhian dress and the Indian freedom movement; the caps retaining stitched internal seams, hand-finished construction, and visible irregularities consistent with period handwoven...
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Rs 5,00,000 - 7,00,000
Hand-spun and handwoven khadi textile panel, embroidered and appliquéd with blue threadwork borders incorporating inset mirror work, is centred by an oval photograph aperture with a liftable cloth flap; the surface is additionally embroidered in yellow chain stitch framing manuscript inscriptions in red and black ink. the upper circular reserve is stitched in red thread over an earlier ink inscription, apparently reading “ॐ / हे राम ” ...
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Rs 15,00,000 - 20,00,000
An extraordinary Gandhian philatelic archive comprising two international stamp albums together with a large associated accumulation of worldwide postage stamps, assembled principally from envelopes and correspondence connected to Mahatma Gandhi and preserved within the Hingorani family archive; including several hundred stamps from British India, Independent India, Hong Kong, Ceylon, Australia, Canada, Palestine, Iraq, Egypt, Fiji, Nyasaland, Seychelles, Panama, Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika,...
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Rs 20,00,000 - 30,00,000
An exceptional and historically evocative international philatelic correspondence archive addressed to Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram Ashram and during his 1947 peace travels, comprising manuscript and typed envelopes, redirected postal covers, juvenile handwritten correspondence, and associated enclosed international postage stamps sent principally by the twelve-year-old Canadian schoolboy and philatelist Grant Rees of 628 Somerville Avenue, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada;
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Rs 3,00,000 - 5,00,000
An exceptionally rare and historically important colonial-era postal archive comprising an official Burma State Lottery registered envelope together with its original enclosed Burma State Lottery ticket, sent from Rangoon, Burma, to Mahatma Gandhi during the final year preceding Burmese independence;
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Rs 4,00,000 - 6,00,000
A real-photo Christmas postcard addressed in black ink to:
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Rs 3,00,000 - 4,00,000
A rare and historically important group of three interconnected international postal and literary items addressed to Mahatma Gandhi during the final decades of British colonial rule in India, comprising:The National Movement ...
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Rs 5,00,000 - 7,00,000
A substantial archive of approximately twenty-one postal covers, wrappers and institutional envelopes addressed principally to Mahatma Gandhi in India, together with related correspondence to Anand T. Hingorani, dating principally from the late 1930s to October 1947, comprising domestic Indian, imperial, diasporic and international mail routed to Gandhi at Bhangi Colony, Balmiki Mandir, New Delhi, Sabarmati Ashram, Sevagram and Wardha.
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Rs 6,00,000 - 8,00,000
A substantial archive of overseas Asian correspondence addressed principally to Mahatma Gandhi during the final decade of British rule in South Asia, comprising envelopes, redirected covers, institutional mailings, airmail correspondence and colonial postal survivals originating from Ceylon, British Malaya, Burma, Hong Kong and related Indian Ocean communication networks dating principally between 26 January 1938 and February 1948, including material dispatched during the immediate aftermath ...
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Rs 5,00,000 - 7,00,000
A substantial archive of international, Commonwealth and late-imperial correspondence addressed principally to Mahatma Gandhi during the final years of British rule in India, comprising overseas envelopes, redirected covers, official governmental mail, airmail correspondence, registered covers, aerogrammes and post-war postal survivals originating from France, Switzerland, the United States, Canada, Australia, Egypt, South Africa, Mauritius, Kenya–Uganda–Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Great...
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Rs 7,00,000 - 9,00,000
A remarkable archive of international and imperial postal correspondence addressed to Mahatma Gandhi during the final decade of British rule in India, comprising envelopes, airmail covers, redirected correspondence, official postal stationery, book-post wrappers, aerogrammes, government mail, missionary correspondence, institutional communications and overseas airmail envelopes originating from the United States, Great Britain, Canada, South Africa, Kenya–Uganda–Tanganyika, Mauritius, Fiji,...
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Rs 8,00,000 - 10,00,000
A remarkable international archive of approximately 36 envelopes, airmail covers, redirected postal wrappers, book-post packets and institutional correspondence addressed to Mahatma Gandhi, members of his immediate circle, and associates connected with Sevagram Ashram between 1945 and 1947, originating from the United States, Great Britain, Wales, Canada, France, Switzerland, Argentina, Mandate Palestine, Germany under Allied occupation, the Netherlands, Egypt, and other international...
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Rs 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
An extraordinary and highly unusual American airmail envelope with an extended typed pacifist manifesto addressed to Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram Ashram during the immediate post-World War II period, sent by Mrs. Martha C. Berg, “Representing Mothers of America", 334 Concord Place, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, postmarked Chicago, 12 December 1946, addressed in black ink to “Mohandas Gandhi, Sevagram Wardha (C.P.) India Asia”; the envelope bearing three United States postage...
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Rs 8,00,000 - 10,00,000
An important and historically resonant archive of international religious, humanitarian, pacifist and interfaith correspondence addressed to Mahatma Gandhi between 1941 and 1947, comprising a distinguished group of airmail envelopes, institutional covers, redirected postal correspondence, book-post wrappers and international religious communications originating principally from the United States, South Africa, Egypt, British India and associated colonial and Commonwealth postal systems; the...
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Rs 7,00,000 - 9,00,000
A remarkable international archive of postal correspondence addressed to Mahatma Gandhi between 1943 and 1947, comprising envelopes, aerogrammes and institutional covers sent principally from the United States, United Kingdom, South Africa, Kenya, Uganda & Tanganyika, Malaya, Ceylon, Australia and other parts of the late British imperial and Commonwealth world; variously addressed to “Mahatma Gandhi", “Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi", “M. K. Gandhi", "Mahatmaji", “Pujya Mahatma Gandhiji", “His...
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Rs 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
An important and wide-ranging archive of international envelopes, airmail covers, redirected correspondence, postal stationery, registered covers and overseas communications addressed to Mahatma Gandhi and Sevagram Ashram between 1943 and 1947, comprising material sent from South Africa, the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, Canada, British East Africa (Kenya–Uganda–Tanganyika), Uganda, Mauritius, Zanzibar, Malaya under British Military Administration and other parts of the...
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Rs 12,00,000 - 15,00,000
A remarkable and historically layered archive of international press, publishing, intellectual, and institutional correspondence addressed to Mahatma Gandhi between circa 1943 and 1947, comprising a significant group of foreign envelopes, institutional wrappers, publishing covers, press correspondence, educational mailings, international media dispatches, philosophical and research communications, and journalistic transmissions sent principally from the United States, Egypt, South Africa,...
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Rs 10,00,000 - 15,00,000
An important archive of international postal correspondence addressed to Mahatma Gandhi during the final decade of British rule in India, comprising envelopes, wrappers, postal stationery covers, airmail correspondence, and redirected covers originating from the United States, Great Britain, Switzerland, Palestine, South Africa, Northern Rhodesia, Kenya–Uganda–Tanganyika, and Canada, dated principally between 1941 and 1947; variously addressed to Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi,...
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Rs 15,00,000 - 20,00,000