Postal Guides contain a lot of information which have not been published elsewhere. Unfortunately, the Indian guides are very rare. Apart from the British Library which seems to have an almost complete run into the early 20th century, not many exist elsewhere. I have digitised the physical guides I have in my library. While the conserved physical books will remain in my library, I am happy to share the digitised books with connoisseurs of Indian postal history.
The list of 19 guides and pages is given below. They run to almost 4,000 pages!
- April 1880 – 150
- August 1880 – 126
- April 1881 – 124
- January 1882 – 124
- December 1882 – 124
- July 1882 – 129
- April 1890 – 236
- October 1890 – 216
- April 1891 – 229
- October 1891 – 227
- January 1892 – 215
- January 1893 – 215
- July 1893 – 235
- January 1895 – 261
- August 1895 – 262
- January 1896 – 264
- July 1896 – 266
- January 1897 – 268
- August 1897 – 278
The files are for the purchaser’s own use and may not be shared. For security reasons, the pages of the files will be watermarked and the files themselves password protected with the purchaser’s name. Note that the files are not searchable.
