Statesman News Service
MALDA, 17 JAN: The UGC sponsored two-day seminar on political economy, national, development and environment – a historical perspective of India between 1707 and 1960 ended successfully at Malda College today.
The Post Graduate department of History of Malda College organised the seminar.
Professors, scholars from different universities including national level took part in the seminar. Prof Michael Mann, Globe and European Studies Institute, University of Leipzig, Germany addressed the seminar yesterday and today.
He presented a lecture on the impact of the Telegraph in 19th century around the world including the history of Telegraph in India in colonial rule.
In an interactive session, the former principal of the Malda College Prof. Santosh Chakraborty raised a question to Prof Mann about the fate of telegraph in the era of 3G mobile.
He pointed out that district telegraph office recently refused to accept an appeal to send a message by telegraph and the staff had suggested him to send a text message.
Prof Mann said that in those days telegraph was the only mode of communication that was fast. Now telegraph would be costlier when mobile services have come up with cheap prices.
“Once telegraph and telegram were only mode of communication and journalists of international new agencies and news papers used telegram for filling reports”, Prof Mann said.
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