The Post Office of India and Its StoryClarke, Geoffrey
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The Post Office of India and Its Story
Clarke, Geoffrey
Postal service -- India
Identification of payees of money orders, 79, 99
Imperial Penny Postage Scheme, 40
Imported and locally produced printed matter, Differentiation between, 32, 38
Indian Convention States, 114, 185
Indian Mutiny, The Post Office during the, 151, 167, 196, 204
Indian States, The Post Office in, 112
Insurance fee, 41
Insurance system in the Persian Gulf and Turkish Arabia, 141
Introduction of first regular postal system by Lord Clive, 12
Introduction of postage stamps, 31, 32, 178, 179
Introduction of postcards, 7
Introduction of railways, 30
Iraq, 148, 173
Isazai Field Force, 219
Kalahandi Expedition, 212
Kurram Field Force, 219
Kut, 173
Land revenue money orders, 75
Later Postal Regulations, 38
Letter-writers, Professional, 94
Life Insurance policies, Surrender values of, 236
Life Insurance, Postal, 42, 232
Loan, War, 87
Lord Clive, Regular postal system introduced by, 12
Lushai Expedition, 216
Mail runner, 4
Malakand Field Force, 222
Malta Expeditionary Force, 211
Malwa Field Force, 156
Manipur Expedition, 218
Manual, Post Office, 2, 36
Manual (War), Postal, 166
Marine Postal Service, Suez and Bombay, 130
Marseilles as European port for Indian mails, 124, 182
Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf, The Post Office in, 137
Mesopotamia, Field service in, 171
Methods of travel in early days, 195
Military pensioners, Payment of, 42
Military rank on field service, 166
Minors' accounts, 86
Minutes of Consultations of 24th March, 1766, 12
Miranzai Expedition, 218
Mishmi Expedition, 226
Mohmand Field Force, 1897, 223
Mohmand Field Force, 1908, 231
Money order work transferred to Post Office, 41, 71
Money orders, 71
Money orders, Foreign, 73
Money orders, Inland, Statement of issues since 1880, 198
Money orders, Land revenue, 75
Money orders, Rent, 76
Money orders, Telegraphic, 74, 77
Monopoly, Postal, 26, 31
Mosul, Turkish post to Constantinople via, 139
Mounted post, First employment of, 11
Mutiny, The Post Office during the Indian, 151, 167, 196, 204
Naval Agents, 127, 129, 130
Newspapers, Registered, 43
Newspapers, Sale of, by field post offices, 223, 224
Non-postal work, 9
Octroi Tax, 53
Official articles, Special postage rates for, 40
Official marks of the Post Office, Acceptance of, as evidence, 43
Organization of the Department, 3, 30, 31
Organization of the Direction, 2
Origin of the Post Office, 10
Overland Route, The, 119, 137
Overprinted postage stamps, 115, 148, 182, 184, 228
Overprinted Turkish postage stamps, 148
Overprints, Indian Convention States, 115, 185
Overseer, 99, 166
Palestine, Field service in, 173
Parcel post, 48
Parcel post, Foreign, 51
Parcel post rates, Statement of, 55
Parcel post with England, 39, 50
Parcels and packets liable to be detained, 43
Paton, Mr. G., 157, 204
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