Post office · Bengal Presidency
Bishenpore
Bishnupur (the Bishenpore of early records) is a town in Bankura district, West Bengal, celebrated as the former capital of the Malla kings and for its terracotta temples and Baluchari silks. A cultural and trade centre of the Rarh country, it lay west of the Damodar. As a post town of the Bengal Presidency its pre-1854 markings document the mail of the Bankura uplands.
No handstamp from Bishenpore has been recorded yet.
Bishenpore is a known post office of the Bengal Presidency, but no pre-1854 strike has been catalogued in Giles. This is exactly what the census is here to change — if you hold a cover or strike from Bishenpore, your submission (once reviewed) becomes a recorded entry below.
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Other post offices in the Bengal Presidency
Explore the pre-1854 postal history of other Bengal Presidency post offices — each page lists its recorded handstruck markings, dates and surviving covers.
