Postal System of India - Indian Pincodes, Post Office Buildings in India, Postage Stamps of India, Postal History of India (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Indian pincodes, Post office buildings in India, Postage stamps of India, Postal history of India, Postage stamps and postal history of India, List of postage stamps of India, Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India, List of people on stamps of India, Indian Postal Service, Postage stamps and postal history of the Indian states, Indian Post & Telecommunication Accounts and Finance Service, Inverted Head 4 Annas, Scinde Dawk, Postage stamps and postal history of Portuguese India, India 10 Rupees Mahatma Gandhi postage stamp, List of people on stamps of Indian States, Azad Hind stamps, Postal Index Number, General Post Office, General Post Office, Kolkata, Jai Hind Post-mark, Postage stamps and postal history of Bahawalpur, Postal Orders of the Indian Field Force in Egypt, List of birds on stamps of India, List of birds on stamps of Jaipur. Excerpt: This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of India. Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans. When the Portuguese, Dutch, French, Danish and British displaced the Mughals, their postal systems existed alongside those of many somewhat independent states. The British East India Company gradually displaced other powers and brought into existence a British administrative system over most of India, with a need to establish and maintain both official and commercial mail systems. Although the Indian Post Office was established in 1837, Asia's first adhesive stamp, the Scinde Dawk, was introduced in 1852 by Sir Bartle Frere, the British East India Company's administrator of the province of Sind. The Indian postal system developed into an extensive, dependable and robust network providing connectivity to almost all parts of India, Burma, the Stra...