Postage stamps and postal history of the postal convention states of India
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The Post Office of India of the British Raj entered into postal conventions with a few native states of India. As per the postal convention (or agreement), existing adhesive stamps and postal stationery of British India were overprinted with the name of the state for use within each convention State, for mail from one convention state to another, and to destinations in British India. The state administrations, in turn, had to conform to a number of agreements covering the issuance of stamps, the rates of postage, and the exchange of mail.
For philatelic purposes such states were referred to as convention states as distinct from the feudatory states which had no postal agreement with British India. The feudatory states issued their own stamps, the postage validity of which was within the borders of the state itself. The collection of convention states is considered to be a part of classical philately as they are plain, unembellished, produced to order for bona fide use and under conditions strictly-controlled by the British Government.