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 …

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 …

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 …

Mundane knowledge of how information flows is essential for a proper understanding of
large organisations and complex activities. It gives us valuable insights into the prevailing …

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s' departs from the
dominant scholarship in South Asian history that focuses narrowly on railways, and instead …

In a penetrating account of the evolution of British intelligence gathering in India, CA Bayly
shows how networks of Indian spies, runners and political secretaries were recruited by the …

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 essay examines the historical relationship between empire and information in late
nineteenth-and early twentieth-century British Asia through a new examination of the …

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 …

Key features of 'early modernity', as historians commonly describe the era of transformations
in the world's history from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, lie in the widespread …