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Sandesh Museum of Communication, the Glossary

Sandesh Museum of Communication is a museum in Bangalore and is dedicated to the postal history of India and different modes of communication.^[1]

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Bangalore

Bangalore, officially Bengaluru (ISO: Beṁgaḷūru), is the capital and largest city of the southern Indian state of Karnataka.

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Cinema of India

The Cinema of India, consisting of motion pictures made by the Indian film industry, has had a large effect on world cinema since the second half of the 20th century.

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Indian culture is the heritage of social norms and technologies that originated in or are associated with the ethno-linguistically diverse India, pertaining to the Indian subcontinent until 1947 and the Republic of India post-1947.

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Dal Lake

Dal is a freshwater lake in Srinagar, the summer capital of the Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Edward Balfour

Edward Green Balfour (6 September 1813 – 8 December 1889) was a Scottish surgeon, orientalist and pioneering environmentalist in India.

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Grill (philately)

A grill on a postage stamp is an embossed pattern of small indentations intended to discourage postage stamp reuse.

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Mail bag

A mail bag or mailbag can be one of several types of bags used for collecting or carrying different types of postal material.

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Mail carrier

A mail carrier, also referred to as a mailman, mailwoman, mailperson, postal carrier, postman, postwoman, postperson, person of post, letter carrier (in American English), or colloquially postie (in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom), is an employee of a post office or postal service who delivers mail and parcel post to residences and businesses.

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Money order

A money order is a directive to pay a pre-specified amount of money from prepaid funds, making it a more trusted method of payment than a cheque.

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Penny Black

The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system.

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Post office

A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery.

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Postage stamps and postal history of India

. --> --> Indian postal systems for efficient military and governmental communications had developed long before the arrival of Europeans.

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Watermark

A watermark is an identifying image or pattern in paper that appears as various shades of lightness/darkness when viewed by transmitted light (or when viewed by reflected light, atop a dark background), caused by thickness or density variations in the paper.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandesh_Museum_of_Communication