This book makes a case for the fact that any history of telecommunications simply has to be about the past as much as it is about its present. Digital India may be new but it is built on previous layers of telecommunications and in this sense the past can enlighten us about both the present and futures of telecommunications in India.

• List of Abbreviations


• Introduction


• 1. The Telegraph


• 2. Cable


• 3. Wireless


• 4. Telecommunications in Post-Independent India


• Postscript


• Index


• About the Author

Pradip Ninan Thomas is at the School of Communications and Arts, University of Queensland. He has written extensively on the media in India, the political economy of communications, communications and social change and the media and religion. He was the Vice President of the International Association for Media & Communication Research (2012-2016).