Historicising the post and telegraphic communications in colonial Odisha
International Journal of Development Research
Historicising the post and telegraphic communications in colonial Odisha
Received 12th November, 2017; Received in revised form 09th December, 2017; Accepted 23rd January, 2018; Published online 28th February, 2018
Copyright © 2018, Dr. Gokulananda Patro. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Transport system and means of communication is the backbone of progress of a nation. The economic prosperity, social welfare and political strength of a nation largely depends on the type of transport and communication it has. Healthy communication system of a state opens up new vistas for economic activity and socio-cultural interaction, which ultimately puts an end to the stagnation and isolation. Colonial Odisha was lamentably very backward in matter of transport and communication. When Odisha was visited by a famine of most intense and desolating character in 1866, its severity became very terrible because of the lack of the communication facilities. The Famine Commission remarked that “Odisha was shut up between pathless jungles and an impracticable sea”. Much care have been taken to reveal the truth behind the backwardness and under development of communication and transport system of Colonial Odisha and for its remedies in this paper.
