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Postal Service
The British Postal Museum & Archive have produce this very informative information sheet on The Postal History of India
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- India Postal Establishments 1868 - 1900 indicating where employee records might be found.
- Lists of Civil Engineers and European and East Indian Uncovenanted Servants employed in the Public Works, Military and Postal Departments 1884 -1900
- Post and Telegraphs Department
Gallery
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Post Office Tirimulgherry -
Post Office Simla -
General Post Office Calcutta -
The General Post Office Bombay -
Her Majesty's Mail Boat on the Magna
External links
- The British Postal Museum & Archive
- Postage stamps and postal history of India - Wikipedia
- The Postal History of India
- Stamps and postal history of India - NationMaster.com
- History of Postal Communications in India by Sangeeta Deogawanka
- Robert S. Cragg’s World Postmarks
- India and States Pre-Independence India and Princely States. Sourced from English Names for Indian Places; a Coded Index of Indian Post Offices by Marcus F C Martin, published 1966. Available at the British Library
- Pakistan, Burma