MC2 Post 1624 End of an Era- Stop- India Scraps the Telegram- Stop-

From:  http://www.telegraph.co.uk

 In India, it was the technological breakthrough that revolutionised communications across what was then the vast British Raj – expediting the East India Company's total commercial dominance of the country, helping to suppress the 1857 uprising and providing newspaper readers in Britain with regular updates from the Empire.However, after 163 years, the days of the telegram – or taar in Hindi – are coming to an end with the dawn of the age of text messages and emails reaching India's rural poor for the first time.

Link:    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/10118966/End-of-an-era.-Stop.-India-scraps-the-telegram.-Stop..html

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