Sometime between October 22, 1929 and November 1, 1929, the Security Printing Press of Nasik, India produced a series of airmail stamps to be used on letter mail to England. These were supposedly first postally used November 12, 1929, although letters to England, dated October 22, 1929 are extant.
The entire series of oblong stamps, designed by R. Grant, was typographed on watermarked single-star paper in sheets of 144, which 12 rows of 12 stamps in each row with perforation 14. A picture of a de Havilland Hercules biplane flying over a lake, with palm trees at the left bank, is the central design. The first five stamps were 3,4,6,8 and 12 Anna denominations. The 2 Anna value was added December 2, 1929, when the airline was extended to Delhi.
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In previous years, in India, small copper tokens (called tickets); valued at 2 annas (1/8th of a rupee) were generally the medium of payment for postage. Single letters of up to 2-1/2 tolas (29 gm) were charged at the rate of 2 annas for every 100 miles.
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The 1854 first issues of India and also first stamps ever made in Asia included a Four Annas value in red and blue. However, an error occurred during production, showing the head “upside down.” This is one of the world’s first multicolored stamps. The design consisted of a profile portrait of Queen Victoria in blue inside an octagonal red frame with the words INDIA above and FOUR ANNAS below. These Four Annas Stamps are first printed in October, 1854 and 17,170 sheets were printed.
These stamps were a rush order and very urgently needed, because postage rate for a small letter from India to Europe at that time was eleven annas. And it was impossible to find place on the small envelope for eleven 1 Anna stamps (the previous highest denomination).
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The history of India’s postal system begins long before the introduction of postage stamps. The Atharvaveda records a messenger service. Systems for collecting information and revenue data from the provinces are mentioned in Chanakya’s Arthashastra (3rd century BC).
For centuries it was rare for messages to be carried by any means other than a relay of runners on foot. A runner ran from one village or relay post to the next, carrying the letters on a pole with a sharp point. His was a dangerous occupation: the relay of postal runners worked throughout the day and night, vulnerable to attacks by bandits and wild animals. Later Ramayana and Mahabharata, two of the greatest epic, mention of the transmission of messages.
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