Hi, Telegraph  is a central deptt.,hence National Archives at New Delhi should have some records . skp.

Does anyone know of the existance of records of Govt Telegraph employees in the 1800'a and 1900's in India. I am researching My father Stanley RODRIGUES who was a telegraphist between 1922 and 1951. He would have moved around quite a bit (as did many Govt employees0 and I would find records of postings etc very useful. Any pointers would be appreciated. Also researching DIAS, ROZARIO, D' or De ROZARIO in South India during 1850 to 1900 Colin RODRIGUES _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/197222280/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now

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Last of the Empire generation writes his memoires May 17, 2010 A MAN who was brought up by five different sets of guardians while his parents travelled the world has published his memories in a book. Tony Orchard, 83, says he is one of the last of a generation children born into well heeled families whose parents worked in various corners of the declining British Empire while their children were at boarding school. In fact it wasn't until Mr Orchard got married at the age of 31 that he finally settled down and lived in one place for more than three years. He has lived at his home in Burkes Road, Beaconsfield, ever since he moved into it with his wife Lene shortly after they married in 1957. The young Tony was born in Kenya in 1926, where parents had met while his father was working for Burmah-Shell in Mombasa. At the age of four he was sent to boarding school in England and for the next ten years was to see his parents only every three years when they came home between his father's work assignments. At first he spent his holidays with his grandparents, but when they died, he was left in the care of various teachers and distant relatives. And despite that, his memories of are happy times. He says: "In those days it took three weeks for a letter to get to India, and an exchange of letters took six or seven weeks. "It was the norm and you didn't have a choice, you just got on with it, but I was exceptionally lucky with the people I lived with." One couple who looked after him - a head teacher and his wife who had no children of their own - took him to visit every cathedral south of a line between Ely and Chester, for example. He said: "We also visited ancient castles and Roman remains, it was a wonderful thing for a school boy to do. It would have been better than being with my parents, my father was wedding to golf. When he was on leave he played golf and I had to carry his clubs." Mr Orchard met his younger brother Tim for the first time when when he was ten, and next met him when he too was sent to school in England. In 1940 he and 300 other children whose parents also worked in India were evacuated to a European school in Calcutta. "It was on the Hooghly river, and we called it Harrow on the Hooghly," he remembers. On finishing school at 18, he joined the Navy and travelled the world before going to university and embarking on a career with Quaker Oats in Canada, with whom he was to stay for the rest of his career. He was posted to England in 1956 and met his wife, a secretary at Quaker Oats, soon after. The couple sent their own two children - now in their 50s - to boarding school after they failed the 11 plus. He said: "It wasn't my choice, I'd rather they had passed and gone to the grammar schools here but in those days the standard of secondary modern eduction was so low." Mr Orchard's book, entitled Here's to Our Far Flung Empire, is available from The Beacon Bookshop in Beaconsfield. He is donating royalties to the charity Combat Stress. http://beaconsfield.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2010/05/last-of-the-empire-generation.html ---------- --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Lots of names here, might be of interest to our members: http://www.honeastindiaco.com/index.html (Last updated: 28 Sept 07) http://www.oldnewsbios.co.nz/ --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

First part of the story, dated Sunday, May 24, 2009 = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090524/jsp/calcutta/story_10951040.jsp Second part of the story, dated Sunday, May 31, 2009 = http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090531/jsp/calcutta/story_11006900.jsp --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Smoke laws first enacted in city of joy URBAN air pollution in India has become a cause of concern and alarm and the subject of much writing and debate on measures to control it. Calcutta is reputed to be one of the world's most polluted cities, but its citizens contend the pervasive acrid odours and hazy horizons are a recent problem and the city in the past was relatively smokeless. The pattern of fuel consumption in Calcutta suggests air pollution in the city can be divided into roughly three historical periods, according to researcher M R Anderson. In the period prior to 1855, domestic burning of wood, dung and illuminating vegetable oils was the major source of smoke, even though coal-burning became more in vogue after 1820. The second period, spanning the middle decades of the 19th century, witnessed a large increase in coal smoke augmenting a substratum of biomass emissions. After 1855, the use of coal increased dramatically and in the third period, after 1880, coal smoke from boilers and domestic use fundamentally altered Calcutta's ambient air quality. Smoke was cited, along with heat, dust, humidity and noisome smells, as one of the health hazards for Europeans in Calcutta in the 18th century. Calcutta was uniquely situated to suffer from air pollution. With the smoke problem arousing official concern and anxiety, Calcutta became in 1863 one of the first cities in the world to enact smoke nuisance legislation. A committee formed to investigate the problem in 1879 commissioned Frederick Grover, the Smoke Inspector for Leeds, in 1902 to make recommendations for smoke abatement. Grover's report gave rise to the Bengal Smoke Nuisances Act of 1905, and the subsequent establishment of the Bengal Smoke Nuisances Commission, which implemented a systematic but selective smoke abatement programme throughout the colonial period. The political urgency of Calcutta's smoke problem was linked closely with the city's role in the British empire. [snip] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/3040 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

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Dear Fabien I am so saddened to read your email. I had hoped to respond to one you sent me ages ago but I lost addresses and docos and much else on our erstwhile computer and everything I had neglected to save. Terry has been on my mind for some time and I felt that things could not have been going well because he used to respond so promptly to emails and requests. Speaking personally and as the thoughts arrive, many of us have lost a treasured connection via Terry, to familiar places in the hills of N.E India that we remember with affection. His books were concerned with 'modus operandi' and technical knowhow concerning steam engines (The Iron Sherpa) but he wrote as well, for a wider audience, sympathetically and in great descriptive detail, of the Himalayan foothills so that, whenever the mood overtook, one could spend, through the well illustrated pages, happy times in memory of those places he too was so impressed by. You have been fortunate indeed, to have shared Terry's life (and he with you) and I send you my heartfelt sympathy at Terry's passing. Please take good care of yourself and be heartened by the memory of your shared life together. Please write when you are able. I should like to keep in touch. With love and sympathy Sally Stewart -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Fabien Raymondaud Sent: Wednesday, 5 May 2010 3:21 AM Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Tribute to our friend Terry Martin Dear friends, I am currently going through Terry's emails list as some of you may not not know that he has sadly but peacefully passed away last Thursday 29th April. This is an extremely difficult period for me as I was Terry's loving and devoted partner for the last 14 years. I have set up a page on justgiving.com to support Katharine House Hospice where we were looked after for 2 solid weeks. We would have been lost without their love and care. If you could donate some of your hard earned cash to support them. I would be overjoyed. Iron Sherpa Volume 2 is finished printing, sadly he hasn't seen completed. Click here if you wish to contribute. http://www.justgiving.com/terrymartindhr With Lovingkindness, Fabien ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I received this catalogue of goods today and thought that it may interest you as to how the better off enjoyed life while travelling. The "Coaching Table" is so very like my chair side book table.......They do include a price list so keep your purse or wallet well hidden...{;}}> www.campaignfurniture.com Peter D Rogers, Suffolk UK

G'day Harshawardhan, On 13/05/2010, at 3:47 PM, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar wrote: http://www.youtube.com/user/peshawargallery#p/a/u/1/95BuqtA-7z4 Thankyou for this one. One of my mother's sisters was born and baptised in the first Church shown in this video. And what a fine church it is. I have the original Baptism Certificate of my Aunt :- Born 29 July 1905 Baptised in Holy Trinity Church, Murree - 20 August 1905 by the Chaplain, R.A. Storrs. ooroo

May 11, 2010 Study on orientalism ''Orientalism, Empire, and National Culture - India 1770-1880'' reviewed at http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/books/article426928.ece?css=print In this book, Michael Dodson examines the historical ontology of orientalism, empire, and nationalism - the three major obsessions of the last generation - in the light of rarely used sources in Sanskrit, Hindi, and English, and with fresh insights into the making of modern India. It explores the varied scholarly manifestations in literature, history, and linguistics, related to the period 1770-1880, projecting the image of 'Indian Civilisation.' The book draws on three principal themes: the East India Company's use of orientalist knowledge and the Sanskrit pundits for strengthening state power in Bengal in the late 18th century; the uses of orientalist methodologies in education for the civilising mission in the 19th century; and, the adaptation, by Indian Sanskrit scholars, of some of orientalism's discursive constructs in the production of newly inflected Hindu identities. Eminently readable, the book is striking for its conceptual clarity and intellectual depth, and is capable of attracting the general as well as specialised readership. [snip] -------------- --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

http://www.youtube.com/user/peshawargallery#p/a/u/1/95BuqtA-7z4 --- Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar

Dear All Due to unforeseen circumstances the pdf of this book is no longer available. However in an earlier posting Maureen pointed out that you can freely access a later and updated edition of the book on the website of the India Digital Archives. It's a good book you should download it from there. Best wishes Liz Researching Chater or Armenians in India and Hong Kong in 2010? Please go to www.chater-genealogy.com.

G'day Tina, On 13/05/2010, at 3:07 AM, Tina Davies wrote: << You're right about the sound but I loved it nonetheless at a pretty high volume! Having flown from Calcutta by Dakota and stayed overnight, I used to travel by train, again overnight, from Madras to Kodai Road Station at the foot of the Pulni Hills - sister to the Nilgiris - then by rickety old coach up 6,500 ft to Kodaikanal to get to school and only wish it had been this entertaining! Tina Davies, WIltshire >> My parents lived in Madurai and as you would know, Kodaikanal was there 'get away place;. I went there once.

You're right about the sound but I loved it nonetheless at a pretty high volume!  Having flown from Calcutta by Dakota and stayed overnight, I used to travel by train, again overnight, from Madras to Kodai Road Station at the foot of the Pulni Hills - sister to the Nilgiris - then by rickety old coach up 6,500 ft to Kodaikanal to get to school and only wish it had been this entertaining! Tina Davies, WIltshire ________________________________ From: Peter Rogers <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, 12 May, 2010 10:15:09 Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] Nilgiri railway Do any of you remember  or travelled the Nilgiri Railway? If so I doubt that you could have had a doze while travelling on this train.... No Health & Safety but some fun.... Warning....Turn your sound down before opening the film please.... I had the whole house rushing in to see what was happening...{;}}> Peter D Rogers,Suffolk UK   Link attached now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2gW3zwMMQ . __,_._,___ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi, I have recently acquired the above book "The Roman of Jute. A Short History of the Calcutta Jute Mill Industry 1855-1909" by D.R. Wallace. It contains many names (including a couple of Armenian names) along with a number of photographs. Unfortunately it is not indexed, so please do NOT ask for lookups. However since it is out of copyright I have scanned it to pdf. If anyone is interested in obtaining a pdf copy from me, please contact me off list. Best wishes Liz Researching Chater or Armenians in India and Hong Kong in 2010? Please go to <http://www.chater-genealogy.com/> www.chater-genealogy.com.

Do any of you remember or travelled the Nilgiri Railway? If so I doubt that you could have had a doze while travelling on this train.... No Health & Safety but some fun.... Warning....Turn your sound down before opening the film please.... I had the whole house rushing in to see what was happening...{;}}> Peter D Rogers,Suffolk UK Link attached now http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_2gW3zwMMQ . __,_._,___

G'day folks, For those interested in the Records of the National Australian National Archives of Immigration of people to Australia. Go to... http://naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/ItemDetail.asp?M=0&B=30242941 or http://naa12.naa.gov.au/ You have to log in first as Guest. I tried it and found. ooroo

Ah leave it to us Hyderabadis to find the best.... :) Sounds ideal to retire in. Khudha Hafiz Kerry On 10 May 2010 17:55, Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar <[email protected]>wrote: > Have you heard about Chikhaldara or Chikhalda?