Beyond the presidencies
India Abroad
The Indian post did not stop at the presidency frontiers. It carried mail through Aden on the Red Sea route, across the Straits Settlements of Singapore, Penang and Malacca, into Burma, beside Portuguese Goa, over the passes into Afghanistan and up to Nepal — and struck its own handstamps on the way.
- territories
- 6
- recorded offices
- 25
- handstamps
- 99
- covers
- 420
Goa (Portuguese India)
Portuguese colonial territory on India's western coast — Goa, Daman and Diu — with a distinct postal tradition predating British India's organised post.
35 handstamps · 6 offices · 83 covers→
Burma
British Burma, administered from Calcutta until 1937, sharing the Bengal postal infrastructure before its separation as a distinct colony.
31 handstamps · 13 offices · 133 covers→
Straits Settlements
Penang, Singapore and Malacca — administered from Calcutta as part of the Bengal Presidency until 1867.
22 handstamps · 3 offices · 117 covers→
Aden
A strategic port at the mouth of the Red Sea, annexed in 1839 and administered as part of the Bombay Presidency — a vital coaling and mail station on the overland route between Britain and India.
5 handstamps · 1 office · 21 covers→
Nepal
The independent Himalayan kingdom beyond the northern frontier — mail from Nepaul (today Kathmandu) carried into British India through the Bengal circle.
4 handstamps · 1 office · 24 covers→
Afghanistan
British military and political posts established during the First Anglo-Afghan War (1839–1842) — field offices at Cabool, Candahar, Ghuznee and Jellalabad whose mail was carried back through the Indian postal system.
2 handstamps · 1 office · 42 covers→
Every office abroad
25 recorded · 25 known — filter by territory, name or recorded status.
25 offices with handstamps