SCINDE

Sur timbre du Pakistan 1952

"
Scinde Dawk was a very old postal system of runners that served the Indus Valley of Sindh,
 an area of present-day Pakistan.

The term also refers to the first postage stamps in Asia,
 the forerunners of the adhesive stamps used throughout

 India,

Burma,

 the Straits Settlements

and other areas controlled by the British East India Company.

The name derives from the words “Scinde”,
 the British spelling of the name of the province of Sindh,
 and “Dawk”, the anglicised spelling of the Hindustani word “Dak” or Post.

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Source WIKIPEDIA

liens :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scinde_Dawk


1850
Etat féodal brito-indien