Multiple choice general knowledge history

India’s first Telephone system was started in?

  1. Delhi

  2. Mumbai

  3. Calcutta

  4. Chennai
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Explanation

India's first telephone system was established in Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1881, just five years after Alexander Graham Bell patented the telephone. The colonial capital had the earliest telecommunications infrastructure, preceding telephone systems in other major cities like Bombay (Mumbai) and Madras (Chennai).

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