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The Post Office of India

The Post Office of India

by Geoffrey Clarke

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Author
Clarke, Geoffrey, -1950
Title
The Post Office of India and Its Story
Credits
Produced by Adrian Mastronardi, Moti Ben-Ari, the Philatelic Digital Library Project at www.tpdlp.net and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries)
Language
English
LoC Class
HE: Social sciences: Transportation and communications
Subject
Postal service -- India
Category
Text
eBook-No.
45092
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/45092
Release Date
March 9, 2014
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE POST OFFICE OF INDIA AND ITS STORY
  2. 2.PREFACE
  3. 3.CONTENTS
  4. 4.APPENDICES
  5. 5.ILLUSTRATIONS
  6. 6.CHAPTER I THE POST OFFICE OF INDIA — FOOTNOTES:
  7. 7.CHAPTER II THE ORIGIN OF THE POST OFFICE
  8. 8.CHAPTER III EARLY POSTAL REGULATIONS — FOOTNOTE:
  9. 9.CHAPTER IV LATER POSTAL REGULATIONS — FOOTNOTE:
  10. 10.CHAPTER V PARCEL POST
  11. 11.CHAPTER VI THE RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE
  12. 12.CHAPTER VII MONEY ORDERS
  13. 13.CHAPTER VIII SAVINGS BANK
  14. 14.CHAPTER IX THE PEOPLE AND THE POST OFFICE
  15. 15.CHAPTER X THE INDIAN POSTMAN
  16. 16.CHAPTER XI POST OFFICE BUILDINGS
  17. 17.CHAPTER XII THE POST OFFICE IN INDIAN STATES
  18. 18.CHAPTER XIII THE OVERLAND ROUTE
  19. 19.CHAPTER XIV THE SEA POST OFFICE
  20. 20.CHAPTER XV THE POST OFFICE IN MESOPOTAMIA AND THE PERSIAN GULF
  21. 21.CHAPTER XVI THE POST OFFICE DURING THE INDIAN MUTINY
  22. 22.CHAPTER XVII THE INDIAN FIELD POST OFFICE
  23. 23.CHAPTER XVIII THE INDIAN FIELD POST OFFICE DURING THE GREAT WAR
  24. 24.CHAPTER XIX INDIAN POSTAGE STAMPS — FOOTNOTE:
  25. 25.APPENDIX A PERSONNEL OF THE POST OFFICE
  26. 26.APPENDIX B EXTRACTS FROM EARLY REGULATIONS REGARDING THE MAIL SERVICE — FOOTNOTE:
  27. 27.APPENDIX C METHODS OF TRAVEL IN EARLY DAYS
  28. 28.APPENDIX D STATEMENT SHOWING THE WORK OF THE POST OFFICE SAVINGS BANK FROM 1882 TO 1918
  29. 29.APPENDIX E STATEMENT OF INLAND MONEY ORDERS ISSUED IN INDIA SINCE 1880
  30. 30.APPENDIX F HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS OF THE CALCUTTA GENERAL POST OFFICE
  31. 31.APPENDIX G
  32. 32.APPENDIX H THE WORK OF THE FIELD POST OFFICE BETWEEN 1867 AND 1912
  33. 33.APPENDIX J THE POST OFFICE INSURANCE FUND
  34. 34.INDEX
  35. 35.Transcriber's Notes

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