Back In Time: On This Day, 251 Years Ago, The First Post Office Opened In India

Back In Time: On This Day, 251 Years Ago, The First Post Office Opened In India

Back in Time is ED’s newspaper-like column that reports the past as though it had happened just yesterday. It allows the reader to relive it several years later, on the date it occurred. Calcutta, March 31, 1774 – A momentous occasion unfurled in the heart of British dominion yesterday as the esteemed East India Company formally established a department for the conveyance of letters and dispatches. Under the directive of Governor-General Warren …