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==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_in_India Communications in India] Wikipedia
*[http://www.livemint.com/Leisure/dnRqhS9tSxkvxMEJx3xh7H/The-telegram-is-dying.html The telegram is dying] by Shruti Chakraborty and Sidin Vadukut 27 September 2008. livemint.com Includes history and details about William Brooke O’Shaughnessy
===Indo-European Telegraph===
*[http://antiquecannabisbook.com/chap1/Shaughnessy.htm Dr. William Brooke O'Shaughnessy (1809-1889)] - laid the first telegraph system in Asia in addition to his work as a doctor who discovered a modern treatment for cholera, and introduced cannabis to Western medicine.
:[http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BiYUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA47 ''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 [http://www.archive.org/details/memoirofsurgeonm00adamrich Archive.org]. The subject assumed the name of Brooke by Royal Licence in 1861.
*[http://atlantic-cable.com/CablePioneers/Stewart/index.htm Lieutenant-Colonel Patrick Stewart, R.E. Director-General of the Indo-European Telegraph] atlantic-cable.com<br>
: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.
*'"A chronological biography of Edward Graves" of the IETD, murdered 2 December 1897 [http://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:cqHn52lf-CUJ:www.dandadec.co.uk/page2/files/T%2520GravesE%2520Bio.pdf+%22Royal+Engineers%22+Tehran&hl=en&gl=au&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESiqv-7kNGtwedSeSqLp5fOUik6mLByVaJJ-lWSpA5WBsW7trXrQcx26gudZ01NAiMzbhHLvXPPtloX1RWW9H3cFFVuGNJBtZK1bSxqgBN1m6t5FolZjBQ47WTv4EHPsrXsoZGV0&sig=AHIEtbQPQhCDoUduAlD1IbIfcF5wXX1L0g html version], [http://www.dandadec.co.uk/page2/files/T%20GravesE%20Bio.pdf original pdf] dandadec.co.uk
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