. No more telegrams hereafter - the end on July 15, 2013. . India bids adieu to a 163-year-old service with close links to its recent history. The queue grew longer as the day wore on outside the Central Telegraph Office in the city that gave birth to the telegram service in India about 163 years ago, . From being a means of enforcing colonial authority to a tool that helped the freedom struggle, the telegraph played a role in India’s history. When India’s telegraphic network falls silent today (July 15), it will mark the end of an era for a technology that once played a unique role in the nation’s history, . The telegraph, of course, was instrumental in helping the British turn the tide of the ‘mutiny’ of 1857. It was perhaps with this fact in mind that, during the Quit India movement in 1942, Congress supporters snapped away at the telegraph lines that bound together outposts of colonial control, . Mr. Ghosh’s book, The Sepoy Mutiny From Telegram Messages, is a historical account of India’s First War of Independence through the telegraph messages sent between 1857 and 1858.“ It was Sir William Brooke O’Shaughnessy, a physician at the Calcutta Medical College, who went to Lord Dalhousie and spoke about the necessity of telegram services in 1848. The work to lay telegraph lines started in November 1850 between Alipore Telecom Factory in the city and the Diamond Harbour Post Office, . Now, Telegram which touched millions of hearts is no more ...
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 18:42:06 +0000
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