Post and Telegraphs Department

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External links

  • Wikipedia
  • This India List thread indicates that telegraph communication with England did not commence until 1870.

Individuals

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.
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

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