Post office · North Western Provinces
Orai (Jaloun)Postal Covers & Pre-1854 Postal History
Orai (the Orai of Jalaun in early records) is a city in the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, headquarters of Jalaun district in the plain between the Yamuna and Betwa. It was a market and administrative town of the southern doab. Within the North-Western Provinces it served as a district post town, and its pre-1854 markings record the mail of the Bundelkhand country.
No handstamp from Orai (Jaloun) has been recorded yet.
Orai (Jaloun) is a known post office of the North Western Provinces, 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 Orai (Jaloun), your submission (once reviewed) becomes a recorded entry below.
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Other post offices in the North Western Provinces
Explore the pre-1854 postal history of other North Western Provinces post offices — each page lists its recorded handstruck markings, dates and surviving covers.