Revue LAROS
Volume 11, Numéro 1, Pages 92-104
2019-02-18

An Analysis Of The Telegraph Project In British India In The Second Half Of The Nineteenth Century

Authors : Boumeddane Larbi .

Abstract

The British in India are identified as the pioneers of telegraphy which they developed in spite of circumstances said to be difficult. Historians and scholars assume that this westernizing project in the second half of the nineteenth century had an imperial rationale. But, as a modernizing infrastructure, the growing telegraphic network in British India had during that period various impacts advantageous for the colonizers or the colonized.

Keywords

British India, telegraph, William O’Shaughnessy, Lord Dalhousie, Benthamism.