Chapter II.
CHAMBA.
Ruling Chief—His Highness Raja Sham Singh.
Head of Post Office—M. Gurditta Mal.
Area—3,126 square miles.
Population—124,032.
Average annual number of postage stamps of all kinds issued per head of literate population—27.
Date of execution of convention-January 1887.
CHAMBA is a Hill State under the political control of the Government of the Punjab, situated between the Territories of Kashmir and the Punjab districts of Kangra and Grurdaspur. The population is scattered and mainly rural.
The State maintains extensive mail lines and has eight post offices in various parts of its territory.
The surcharge on the stamps of this State is of one type only and it is invariably in black.
The words "Chamba" and "State" are surcharged horizontally, the former over the latter at the bottom of the stamp, and are so placed that "State" comes symmetrically below "Chamba." The service stamps bear an additional horizontal surcharge "Service" on the top of the stamp.
