THE 19TH CENTURY INTERNET THE FASCINATING STORY OF ‘INDO-EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH’
Journal: Science and Culture
Year: 2022

The East India Company introduced Telegraph in India ( Telegraph served the commercial, administrative and imperial purposes of the Company and practically saved the Company's Govt. during the mutiny of 1857 by quickly transmitting the news of the movements of the mutineers and sending SOS for military reinforcement. After the mutiny, when the administrative control of India passed on from the Company to the Queen's Govt., a pressing need was felt to telegraphically connect England with India. T