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[[Image:Tea district post and telegraph office.jpg|right|thumb|350px|Tea District Post and Telegraph Department photographed by Samuel Cleland Davidson]]
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== FIBIS resources ==
*FIBIS database: [https://fibis.ourarchives.online/bin/aps_browse_sources.php?mode=browse_components&id=1322&s_id=213 Post Office of India during the Great War - 1914-1920]. Appendix sections listing names of Europeans, Indian and Anglo-Indian Personnel who worked for the Indian Post Office during WW1.


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===Historical books online===
===Historical books online===
*[http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2013/2777 ''An outline of postal history and practice with a history of post office of India''] by Ivie George Joseph Hamilton 1910 Heidelberg University Digital Repository South Asian Studies. Also available [http://nlirepository.nvli.in//handle/123456789/9467 National Library of India] as pdfs.
*[http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/savifadok/volltexte/2013/2777 ''An outline of postal history and practice with a history of post office of India''] by Ivie George Joseph Hamilton 1910. Download from Heidelberg University Digital Repository South Asian Studies. Also available [https://archive.org/details/dli.ministry.04961/page/1/mode/2up Archive.org], mirror from Ministry of Culture/National Library of India, but note some pages near the front of the book, together with pages 129-174  are '''missing''' in the latter version.
*[http://archive.org/stream/postofficeofindi00claruoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post Office of India and its Story]'' by Geoffrey Clarke, Indian Civil Service 1921 Archive.org. “With sixteen illustrations”
*[http://archive.org/stream/postofficeofindi00claruoft#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post Office of India and its Story]'' by Geoffrey Clarke, Indian Civil Service 1921 Archive.org. “With sixteen illustrations”
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
*[http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n7/mode/2up ''The Post Office of India in the Great War''] edited by H.A. Sams 1922 Archive.org. [http://archive.org/stream/cu31924012679548#page/n11/mode/2up Contents]
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:Probable [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548621/page/n1 1903 edition], (although not cataloged as such) Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Generally poor quality print.
:Probable [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.548621/page/n1 1903 edition], (although not cataloged as such) Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Generally poor quality print.
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031/view?partId=nla.obj-412339007#page/n12/mode/1up telegraph code] to be used, (from page 12) as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
:[http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031 ''Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East''] 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the [http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-412337031/view?partId=nla.obj-412339007#page/n12/mode/1up telegraph code] to be used, (from page 12) as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
:[https://archive.org/details/dli.ernet.199750/mode/2up ''Word Code For Foreign State Telegrams, compiled for the Government of India. Part II-Code Phrase''] by J H Lane Indian Government Telegraph Department. 4th Edition prepared under the direction of J J Allen. Archive.org. [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.115584/page/n3/mode/2up Another file, easier to read in parts] but some pages towards the back are scanned/printed upside down. Archive.org. Elsewhere 4th edition was published 1903 (3rd edition 1890 in two volumes Part 1 Phrase, Code]
:Article [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~CS4HS/talks/codebooks.pdf "Compression, Correction, Confidentiality, and Comprehension: A Look at Telegraph Codes"] by Steven M. Bellovin "Preliminary version – March 25, 2009". cs.columbia.edu
:Article [http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~CS4HS/talks/codebooks.pdf "Compression, Correction, Confidentiality, and Comprehension: A Look at Telegraph Codes"] by Steven M. Bellovin "Preliminary version – March 25, 2009". cs.columbia.edu
:Article [https://www.jmcvey.net/cable/government/index.htm government and colonial administration codes] jmcvey.net


===Indo-European Telegraph===
===Indo-European Telegraph===
[[Image:Telegraph Office, Calcutta.jpg‎|right|thumb|350px|Telegraph Office , Calcutta]]
[[Image:Telegraph Office, Calcutta.jpg‎|right|thumb|350px|Telegraph Office , Calcutta]]
====Indo-European Telegraph Department====
====Indo-European Telegraph Department====
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department Indo-European Telegraph Department in Iran] Encyclopaedia Iranica. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
*[https://iranicaonline.org/articles/indo-european-telegraph-department   Indo-European Telegraph Department] Encyclopaedia Iranica. Construction commenced 1863. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell"] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society'' No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. now an archived webpage.  
**[https://web.archive.org/web/20070626152039/http://www.sis.org.uk/bulletin/92/Packer.pdf "Scientific Instrument with a Story to Tell"] by John Packer ''Bulletin of the Scientific Instruments Society'' No. 92 (2007), pages 17-18. now an archived webpage.  
*An India List post indicates  the IETD was sold to Cable and Wireless in 1931. Also includes some names of employees c 1930.<ref>Fuller, Tony.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20210118234728/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=786045 Photograph with a lot of names - IETD Station at Bushire, 1930]  ''Rootsweb India List'' 5 August 2012, now archived</ref>
*An India List post indicates  the IETD was sold to Cable and Wireless in 1931. Also includes some names of employees c 1930.<ref>Fuller, Tony.  [https://web.archive.org/web/20210118234728/https://mlarchives.rootsweb.com/listindexes/emails?listname=india&thread=786045 Photograph with a lot of names - IETD Station at Bushire, 1930]  ''Rootsweb India List'' 5 August 2012, now archived</ref>
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*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/TelegraphIsland/index.htm Telegraph Island The Indo-European Telegraph 1863-65] atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/TelegraphIsland/index.htm Telegraph Island The Indo-European Telegraph 1863-65] atlantic-cable.com
**[http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29761017 The hardship posting to end all hardship postings] by Matthew Teller 24 October 2014. The telegraph station on Jazirat Al-Maqlab (Maqlab Island), now known as Telegraph Island.  bbc.com/news
**[http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29761017 The hardship posting to end all hardship postings] by Matthew Teller 24 October 2014. The telegraph station on Jazirat Al-Maqlab (Maqlab Island), now known as Telegraph Island.  bbc.com/news
*[http://myphilately.com/fil_view.php?file_id=61062&t=science&tfr= First Day cover: Indo-European Telegraph Line- centenary]  9 November 1967. It is not clear what event occurred 9 November 1867.
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]] [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlpwd&cid=1-7#1-7 Indo-European Telegraph Department  '''IOR/L/PWD/7''']  1865-1931
*India Office Records at the [[British Library]] [http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=059-iorlpwd&cid=1-7#1-7 Indo-European Telegraph Department  '''IOR/L/PWD/7''']  1865-1931
*[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266157 ''The formation of the Indo-European telegraph line : Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Persia 1855-1865''] by Suliman Shahvar 1997 Thesis (Ph.D.) School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)  
*[https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266157 ''The formation of the Indo-European telegraph line : Britain, the Ottoman Empire and Persia 1855-1865''] by Suliman Shahvar 1997 Thesis (Ph.D.) School of Oriental and African Studies (University of London), British Library EThOS (Electronic Theses Online Service)  
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====The Indo-European Telegraph Company====
====The Indo-European Telegraph Company====
*[http://www.iranica.com/articles/indo-european-telegraph-company Indo-European Telegraph Company]  (iranica.com) was privately owned and operated by the Siemens Company. Telegrams along this route commenced from India to London in January 1870
*[https://iranicaonline.org/articles/indo-european-telegraph-company Indo-European Telegraph Company]  (Encyclopaedia Iranica) was privately owned and operated by the Siemens Company. Telegrams along this route commenced from India to London in January 1870
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Indo-Eur/index.htm The Indo-European Telegraph Company] by Steven Roberts  Also includes brief information about the Indo-European Telegraph Department atlantic-cable.com
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CableCos/Indo-Eur/index.htm The Indo-European Telegraph Company] by Steven Roberts  Also includes brief information about the Indo-European Telegraph Department atlantic-cable.com
*[http://124.108.19.235:12000/jspui/bitstream/123456789/11673/1/Vol26_3_3_AKarbelashvili.pdf "Europe-India Telegraph “Bridge” via the Caucasus"] by Andre Karbelashvili ''Indian Journal of History of Science 26 (3) 1991'', pages 277-281. Alternatively from [http://www.insa.nic.in/UI/Archivesection.aspx Archives at Indian National Science Academy Journals].
*[https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol26_3_3_AKarbelashvili.pdf   "Europe-India Telegraph “Bridge” via the Caucasus"] by Andre Karbelashvili ''Indian Journal of History of Science 26 (3) 1991'', pages 277-281. Alternatively from [https://insa.nic.in/UI/Archivesection.aspx Archives at Indian National Science Academy Journals], or [https://web.archive.org/web/20200728142811/https://insa.nic.in/writereaddata/UpLoadedFiles/IJHS/Vol26_3_3_AKarbelashvili.pdf archived version].
*[https://www.istampgallery.com/indo-european-telegraph-line-centenary/ A Commemorative postage stamp on the Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service] issued 9 November 1967. istampgallery.com.  This stamp probably relates to the foundation of the Indo-European Telegraph Company, or commencement of construction of it's line. Image of First Day cover.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20210125212854/https://www.collectorbazar.com/item/india-first-day-cover-indo-european-telegraph-line-centenary-1967-f1037-123753/ Image of First Day cover, Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service] collectorbazar.com, archived.</ref>


==== Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable====
==== Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable====
*[http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1870BritishIndian/index.htm 1870 British - Indian Cable (Bombay - Aden - Suez)] by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com
*[http://www.atlantic-cable.com/Cables/1870BritishIndian/index.htm 1870 British - Indian Cable (Bombay - Aden - Suez)] by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com. The British-Indian Submarine Telegraph Company.
**[https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/documents-reveal-contents-of-the-first-telegraph-message-between-india-england/articleshow/11976488.cms Documents reveal contents of the first telegraph message between India & England] via thousands of km of cables laid  below the seas, on 23 June, 1870.  economictimes.indiatimes.com Feb 22, 2012.


===Records===
===Records===

Latest revision as of 06:22, 15 July 2024

Also known as Posts and Telegraphs Department.

Tea District Post and Telegraph Department photographed by Samuel Cleland Davidson

FIBIS resources

Entry

Related Articles

External links

Historical books online

Probable 1903 edition, (although not cataloged as such) Archive.org, Public Library of India Collection. Generally poor quality print.
Henry S. King & Co.'s Hand book for homeward-bound travellers from India, Australia and the East 1893 National Library of Australia. Includes the telegraph code to be used, (from page 12) as words or phrases more than ten letters are charged double.
Word Code For Foreign State Telegrams, compiled for the Government of India. Part II-Code Phrase by J H Lane Indian Government Telegraph Department. 4th Edition prepared under the direction of J J Allen. Archive.org. Another file, easier to read in parts but some pages towards the back are scanned/printed upside down. Archive.org. Elsewhere 4th edition was published 1903 (3rd edition 1890 in two volumes Part 1 Phrase, Code]
Article "Compression, Correction, Confidentiality, and Comprehension: A Look at Telegraph Codes" by Steven M. Bellovin "Preliminary version – March 25, 2009". cs.columbia.edu
Article government and colonial administration codes jmcvey.net

Indo-European Telegraph

Telegraph Office , Calcutta

Indo-European Telegraph Department

  • Indo-European Telegraph Department Encyclopaedia Iranica. Construction commenced 1863. While the IETD was an autonomous department for much of its existence, between February 1888 and April 1893, it was under direct auspices of the Director General of Indian Telegraphs. The IETD was dissolved in March 1931. There was significant intermarriage with Iranian Armenians.
  • An India List post indicates the IETD was sold to Cable and Wireless in 1931. Also includes some names of employees c 1930.[1]
  • 1859 Suez - Aden - Karachi Cable atlantic-cable.com
    • HMS Retribution assisted in laying the first submarine telegraph cable to India, in the section between Karachi and Aden in 1859.Memories of the Sea, page 155 by Admiral Penrose Fitzgerald 1913 Archive.org
  • Indian Cables by Bill Glover atlantic-cable.com includes
    • Persian Gulf cables of 1864
    • 1869 Duplicate Cable
The through line to London opened to the public in March 1865
"Wires of Discord: England, the Indo-European Telegraph Line and Ottoman-Iranian Border Conflicts" by Soli Shahvar, Iran Namag Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 2016. Article In Persian with Google Translate English version , or if link is unstable use Google Translate.
Historical books online
  • "Report on the line of Telegraph from Ras Jashk to Basrah" by Lieutenant A. W. Stiffe, Indian Navy. (Read before the Society, March 17th, 1864), page 208 Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society, Volume 17, January 1863 to December 1864 Google Books
  • Telegraph and Travel: a narrative of the formation and development of telegraphic communication between England and India, under the orders of Her Majesty's government, with incidental notices of the countries traversed by the lines by Frederic John Goldsmid, late Chief Director of the Government Indo-European Telegraph 1874. File 1, easier to read Archive.org, Asiatic Society of Mumbai, Granth Sanjeevani Collection. File 2, with Map and perhaps better images Archive.org, mirror from Central Secretariat Library, Government of India. Map

The Indo-European Telegraph Company

Bombay - Aden – Suez Cable

Records

British Library

  • Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1877-1878 IOR/L/PWD/2/220
  • Birth/baptismal certificates in Indian Telegraph Department candidates' application papers 1865-1869 IOR/L/PWD/8/6
  • Also see L/F/10 Records of Service 1702-1928
  • Civil Lists IOR/V/13, V13/246-276. 1866 to c 1954. A researcher found a December 1929 death in Civil Lists Indian Posts and Telegraph Department May 1930 to April 1932, IOR V/13/260. This death was not recorded in the records on findmypast.

Individuals

Selections From the Records of the Bengal Government No.VII Report On The Electric Telegraph Between Calcutta And Kedgeree by W B O’Shaughnessy MD, Superintendent of the Electric Telegraph 1852 Google Books
Memoir of Surgeon-Major Sir W. O'Shaughnessy Brooke ... in connection with the early history of the telegraph in India by M Adams 1889 Archive.org . The subject assumed the name of Brooke by Royal Licence in 1861.
As part of the Telegraph Department, he played a significant role in the Indian Mutiny. He left England, at the close of 1863, to superintend the laying of the Indo-European sea-cable along the coast of Beloochistan and Persia. He died 16 January 1865 having just accomplished the most difficult part of his task by the completion of the telegraphic line from Bagdad, to Bushire.
John Isaacson, who at the time was described as a "Sergeant, RE", arrived in Persia on 11 November 1863 and was posted to the Persian section of the IETD. He died in Bushire in 1892.

References

  1. Fuller, Tony. Photograph with a lot of names - IETD Station at Bushire, 1930 Rootsweb India List 5 August 2012, now archived
  2. Image of First Day cover, Centenary of the Indo-European Telegraph Service collectorbazar.com, archived.