Post office · Bengal Presidency
Cachar
Cachar (recorded under the same name) is a district of southern Assam in the Barak river valley, its headquarters at Silchar, annexed by the British in 1832 as a frontier tract of the eastern hills. It became a centre of tea planting on the Bengal frontier. Within the Bengal Presidency it served as a post station, and its pre-1854 markings document the early mail of the Assam borderland.
No handstamp from Cachar has been recorded yet.
Cachar 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 Cachar, your submission (once reviewed) becomes a recorded entry below.
Same presidency
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.