A Letter to Railway Dept.

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    Okhil Babu's Letter to the Railway Department:

    Date: 02 - 07 - 1909
    Divisional Railway Officer,
    Sahibgunj,

    Respected Sirs,
    I am arrive 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 or train to go off and I am running with lotaah in one hand and dhoti in the next when I am fall over and expose all my shocking to man and female women on platform. 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.

    Your faithful Servant,
    Okhil Chandra Sen

    Okhil Babu wrote this letter to the Sahibganj divisional railway officer in 1909. It is on display at the Railway Museum in New Delhi. It was also reproduced under the caption Travellers tales in the Far Eastern Economic Review.
    Any guesses why this letter is of Historic Value?

    It led to the introduction of TOILETS in trains in India.
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