Aranya Dutta Choudhury’s book on non-postal stamps and historical stamp papers of North East India bridges philately, governance, and history to illuminate a region whose administrative imprints have long remained unseen. Amit Dixit interviews the author.

What inspired you to write The Non-Postal Stamps & Stamp Papers of North-Eastern India?

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I have been travelling across the North Eastern states for the last 25 years, having also stayed in Guwahati for some time early in my corporate career. I had a passion for stamp collecting from childhood, and I gradually blended my corporate travels and analytical rigour to evolve into a serious philatelist.

Traveling across the North East I started discovering new artifacts like coins, tea tokens and, of course, stamps. It is well u

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