Tag: history

Indian Postal System was developed under the governor-generalship of Lord Dalhousie. He served as the Governor General of India from 1848 to 1856. The postal stamps were used in 1854 for the first time.  

The first railway line in South India was opened between Madras (Royapuram) and Arakonam in 1856.

A separate Public Works Department was set up under the rule of Dalhousie. Irrigational works were undertaken on an extensive scale. The constructional work of Ganga canal was completed and was inaugurated on April 8, 1854. 

Enclouser in Enland were seen as necessary to make long-term investment on, land agriculture and to plan crop rotatation to improvement the soil.

Saxon Dynasty, also called Liudolfing Dynasty, ruling house of German kings (Holy Roman emperors) from 919 to 1024.  He concluded the Privilegium Ottonianum, a treaty that regulated relations between emperor and pope, and initiated a Holy Roman Empire of the German nation.

Bengal Sati Regulation, 1829. A Regulation for declaring the practice of Sati or of Burning or Burying alive the Widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the Criminal Courts.

Before the 1857 revolt, British India had only two trunk roads under construction - one connecting Calcutta to Delhi, and the other connecting Bombay to Agra. These were part of Grand Trunk Road projects, with the Bombay-Agra line being the correct second route (not Madras-Calcutta, Delhi-Lahore, or Peshawar-Patna).

The General Services Enlistment Act was issued in 1856 by Lord Canning.

First railway line in India was set up by Lord Dalhousie in 1853, between Bombay to Thane.

Lord Dalhousie, who was the governor-general of India from 1848 to 1856, started the Public Works Department in 1848, and irrigation projects were among the earliest to be launched by this department.