COLONIALISM AND IMPERIALISM
COLONIALISM AND ITS ANALYSIS
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The 1st telegraphic line was opened in from Calcutta to Agra in 1854
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It further extended to Lahore and Peshawar by 1857
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A single unified postal department was established for the entire country
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Both a & b
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Detailed explanation-1: -Lord Dalhousie appointed a Post office commission in 1850. Finally, the approved recommendations of Commission were framed as Post office Act XVII, 1854. 700 Post offices (Post offices-645 & Receiving houses – 55). The Head Quarters was at Bengal, responsible to Home Department of the Government of India.
Detailed explanation-2: -It connected Calcutta, Agra, Bombay, Peshawar, and Madras. The telegraph was the brainchild of a visionary inventor named William O’Shaughnessy, and it secured England’s grip on India. O’Shaughnessy had gone to India in 1833 as a 24-year-old assistant surgeon with the East India Company.
Detailed explanation-3: -Indian post and telegraph department provides various postal services across India. For these services, the whole country has been divided into 22 postal circles.