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13th August 2006, 01:06 PM
Okhil Chandra Sen wrote this letter to the Sahibganj Divisional Railway Office in July 2, 1909. It is on display at the railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption Travelers Tale in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department:
"I am arriving by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in next when I am fall over and expose my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."
Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?
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Ok this is why. In those days there used to be no toilets in lower class carriages in india. After this, the railway authorities had no other option but to introduce toilets in all lower class carriages in trains running more than 50 miles.
Can you imagine travelling in trains without toilets now.
Jai Hind
:hi_5:
Okhil Babu's letter to the Railway Department:
"I am arriving by passenger train Ahmedpur station and my belly is too much swelling with jackfruit. I am therefore went to privy. Just I doing the nuisance that guard making whistle blow for train to go off and I am running with 'lotah' in one hand and 'dhoti' in next when I am fall over and expose my shocking to man and female women on plateform. I am got leaved at Ahmedpur station.
This too much bad, if passenger go to make dung that dam guard not wait train five minutes for him. I am therefore pray your honour to make big fine on that guard for public sake. Otherwise I am making big report to papers."
Any guesses why this letter was of historic value?
Think.....
Think.....
Think.....
....
Ok this is why. In those days there used to be no toilets in lower class carriages in india. After this, the railway authorities had no other option but to introduce toilets in all lower class carriages in trains running more than 50 miles.
Can you imagine travelling in trains without toilets now.
Jai Hind
:hi_5: