Danish India: Letters Before the Adhesive Stamp
Tranquebar and Serampore linked the Indian coast, Bengal and Copenhagen through company letters, private shipping and the British Indian post.
Danish India
Tranquebar and Serampore connected the Indian coast, Bengal and Copenhagen through company correspondence, private shipping and the British Indian post.
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Danish India: Places, Rulers and a Changing Administration
Tranquebar and Serampore lay in different Indian settings; company rule, the Crown and British occupations frame how their letters are read.
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Danish India Before the Packets: Company and Private Letters
A Tranquebar letter of 1792 and the surviving letter-copybooks show why a trading link is not yet a proven postal route.
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The Danish India Postal Regulation of 1803
Christian VII’s 27 clauses set up three letter offices, a locked mail chest, registers and receipts: a chain of responsibility for every letter.
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The Danish India Packets of 1803–1806: Charges, Plans and Voyages
The 1803 tariff named different currencies and letter classes; the planned timetable soon met a first voyage five months late.
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Serampore Overseas Mail: the Martyn and Randall Letters
Two letters link a Danish settlement with British postal handling, in opposite directions and twelve years apart.
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Tranquebar: Paid and Unpaid Handstamps
A clear paid letter of 1800, a disputed unpaid letter of 1822 or 1823, and two marks of 1843: read the dateline, the strike and the caption separately.
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Danish India: the Mission, the Press and the Archives
The 1837 Serampore press letter and the Tranquebar mission archive tie postal objects to the institutions that made and kept them.
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Danish India: the 1845 Transfer and a Guide to Collecting
The sale of 1845 came before Denmark’s first stamps; a good collection records each whole letter and the evidence it carries.
