# Seeb Chunder Nandy

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'''Seebchunder Nandy''' or '''Sib Chandra Nundy''' (June 1824 – 6 April 1903) was an Indian [Bengali](/source/Bengalis) telegraphy official who worked on the first telegraph lines established in [British India](/source/British_India). He helped install and maintain the first telegraph lines between [Agra](/source/Agra) and Calcutta using innovative approaches to reduce the cost of installation.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Metals|first=Indian Institute of|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GJ2BAAAAIAAJ&q=Seeb+Chunder+Nandy|title=Transactions of the Indian Institute of Metals|date=1953|publisher=Indian Institute of Metals.|language=en}}</ref>thumb|left|upright|Design of posts using toddy palms by Seeb Chunder Nandy Born in a family of modest means in [Calcutta](/source/Kolkata), he worked at the refinery of the Calcutta Mint from 1846 under [William Brooke O'Shaughnessy](/source/William_Brooke_O'Shaughnessy). When O'Shaughnessy started working on the first telegraphic line in India, he made use of Nandy as his assistant. Nandy tested the first line signalling from [Diamond Harbour](/source/Diamond_Harbour) to O'Shaughnessy in Calcutta in a demonstration made to [Lord Dalhousie](/source/James_Broun-Ramsay%2C_1st_Marquess_of_Dalhousie). Nandy later became a line inspector in charge of training signallers. In 1866 he became an assistant superintendent and just before retiring the next year he was given the title of [Rai Bahadur](/source/Rao_Bahadur) on 28 February 1883.<ref>{{cite journal| title=Science in British India. II. Indian response| author=Kochhar, R.K.| journal=Current Science| volume=64| issue=1| year=1993| pages=55–62| jstor=24095556| url=https://www.currentscience.ac.in/Downloads/article_id_064_01_0055_0062_0.pdf}}{{Dead link|date=May 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
Among Nandy's achievements was in the low-cost installation of lines. Using fishing boats he helped lay 7 miles of underwater cable across the river Padma at a very low cost. He also used palm trees as posts when he was given charge to lay down 900 miles through East Barrakur-Allahabad, Banares-Mirzapur-Seonee, and Calcutta to Dacca.<ref name=tele>{{cite book|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.242905/page/n35 11]–15 |year=1953|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.242905|title= Story Of The Indian Telegraphs: A Century Of Progress|first=Shridharami|last= Krishnalal|publisher=Posts and Telegraphs Department}}</ref> The palm tree as a post was later incorporated into the telegraphy manual.<ref>{{cite book|title=The Electric Telegraph in British India |author=O'Shaughnessy, W.B. |year=1858|url= https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177275|page=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.177275/page/n59 35]}}</ref> He also served as a treasurer for the [Asiatic Society of Bengal](/source/The_Asiatic_Society) in 1849–50.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal |volume=19| year=1851|url=https://archive.org/details/journalasiatics20benggoog/page/158/mode/1up|pages=158–178 |title=Abstract Statement of Receipts and Disbursements of the asiatic Society for the year 1849}}</ref>

He was given a special mention in Sir [Roper Lethbridge](/source/Roper_Lethbridge)'s ''The Golden Book of India'' for his services during the mutiny of 1857. On 19 April 1902 he was present at the opening of the Mutiny Telegraph Memorial. He died of plague on 6 April 1903 during an epidemic in Calcutta and the local Telegraph Office was closed for the day.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Prohor|title=১৭০ বছর আগে, পদ্মার নিচ দিয়ে টেলিগ্রাফের তার পেতেছিলেন বাঙালি ইঞ্জিনিয়ার - Prohor|url=https://www.prohor.in/index.php/seeb-chunder-nandy-the-bengali-legendary-engineer|access-date=2021-08-06|website=১৭০ বছর আগে, পদ্মার নিচ দিয়ে টেলিগ্রাফের তার পেতেছিলেন বাঙালি ইঞ্জিনিয়ার - Prohor|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=পুরোনো কলকাতার বাঙালি কারিগর|url=http://www.swastikaonline.com//Encyc/2018/4/11/Bengali-craftsman-of-old-Kolkata.html|access-date=2021-08-06|website=www.swastikaonline.com|language=en|archive-date=31 May 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180531172953/http://www.swastikaonline.com/Encyc/2018/4/11/Bengali-craftsman-of-old-Kolkata.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Legacy==
A lane at [Burrabazar](/source/Burrabazar) in [Kolkata](/source/Kolkata) was named after him in 1904 as Shib Nandi Lane.<ref name=tele /><ref>{{cite book|work=Amrita Bazar Patrika|year=1956|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.37518|title=Sibu Nandy Lane, Calcutta|author=Shridharani, Krishnalal|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.37518/page/n825 151]–152, 160}}</ref>

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