Chapter III.
FARIDKOT.
Ruling Chief—His Highness Raja Bikram Singh Bahadur, Barar Bans, Farzand-i-Saadat, Nishan-i-Hazarat-i-Kaisar-i-Hind.
Head of Post Office—L. Harji Ram.
Area—643 square miles.
Population—115,040.
Average annual number of postage stamps of all kinds issued per head of literate population—35.
Date of commencement of convention—January 1887.
FARIDKOT is the smallest of the group of four Cis-Sutlej Sikh States with which we have to deal. It borders with the British District of Ferozpore in the Punjab. Its population is mainly agricultural, its two largest towns numbering only 16,000 inhabitants in all.
As in the case of Chamba, the first proofs of the stamps were surcharged in red and were not approved. The surcharges are, therefore, all in black.
The dimensions of the surcharges are:—
"Faridkot" ... ... ... 12f X 2 millimetres. "State" ... ... ... 7f x 2 ,, Interval between " Faridkot " and " State "1 ,, "Service" ... ... ... 10J X 2 „ 1887.
