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THE GENERAL POST OFFICE. CALCUTTA.

The Post Office Service in India is now thoroughly well organised, and is both cheap and efficient. The central building, namely, the General Post Office at Calcutta, is here represented. It was opened in 1870, and cost 630,310 rupees to construct. It fronts Dalhousie Square on its eastern side, and the third and fourth pillars from the northern end of that side mark the site of the "Black Hole of Calcutta." The building exhibits a strange but not altogether unsatisfactory style ; there is something Egyptian in the flanking towers, while the lofty dome which we see at its south-eastern corner represents a style of architecture of much later date. The revenue from the Indian Post Office in a single year amounted to 2,799,435 tens of rupees, while the corresponding expenditure was 2,541,651 tens of rupees. India is included in the Postal Union, and the inland postal rates are exceedingly low.
Date between 1897 and 1899
date QS:P,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1897-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1899-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Source The Queen's Empire. Volume 3. Cassell & Co. London
Author Various photographers for Cassell & Co.
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