| | POSTAGE STAMPS OF INDIA USED ABROAD |
 | | In a number of British-controlled areas scattered around the Indian Ocean, Indian stamps were used to prepay postage until the establishment of local postal systems (still under the general control of British India) permitted these areas to issue their own stamps (and thereby garner the revenues therefrom). |
| | Indian stamps used in these places can only be identified by their postmarks and while this is relatively easy for the more recent CDS-type cancel,, it is rather more difficult with the older, numbered, postmarks. |
| | A special stamp was used, in addition to the normal Indian postage, to raise funds for the expedition. |
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