So far, the history of telegraphy has been written from a technological perspective and, as a
result, as a history of Western progress and modernity. In contrast, this book focuses on the …

This essay argues that a focus on technologies of communication such as the electric
telegraph helps us to rethink the historiography of the press in colonial India by drawing …

Abstract On 14 July 2013, India closed down its telegraph service, drawing the curtain over
an important chapter in its history of telecommunications. Introduced during the British …

Presenting a communicational perspective on the British empire in India during the 20th
century, the book seeks to examine how, and explain why, British proconsuls, civil servants …

At the end of the First World War, Government of India officials and Indian nationalist
politicians began to recognise the need for an organized communications network that could …

This book profiles twentieth-century India through the life and times of Ramananda
Chatterjee–journalist, influencer, nationalist. Through a reconstruction of his history, the …

The collection examines the role of the media in India's history and development, bringing
together a collection of essays on its interplay with politics, society and culture. It surveys the …

A Unianimous decision of the Viceroy's Council was taken on 14 March 1878 to establish a
check over the vernacular press in India. This was Act IX of 1878, an act for 'the better control …

Britain introduced telegraphs in its colonial empires in order to tighten its control over its
subjects. Thus, the British in India used their new telegraph lines to repress the Indian …

In the 1940s, the Indian section of the BBC was an important focal point for South Asian
writers, intellectuals and their British counterparts. 1 As such, it became 'a complicated …