نوآبادیاتی دور کے علما

کے پیدا کردہ لٹریچر میں اس کا ذکر تک موجود نہیں۔ ہیرنشا (1846-1969) ایک برٹش رائٹر ہے۔ اس نے اپنی ایک کتاب میں بہت سی واقعاتی مثالوں سے بتایا ہے کہ اگر ایسا نہ ہوتا تو تاریخ کچھ اور ہوتی۔ اس کی کتاب کا نام ہے ــ تاریخ کے اگر: F.J.C. Hearenshaw, The Ifs of History (1929) اس کتاب کے 19 ویں باب کا عنوان یہ ہے ــ اگر خمسینات میں برقی ٹیلی گراف نہ ہوتا: “If There Had Been No Electric Telegraph in the Fifties” اس باب کے تحت مصنف نے جو کچھ لکھا ہے اس کا ایک حصہ یہ ہے: “There were in India at the time only 45000 British troops as against more than 250,000 sepoys. Nothing could have saved the lives of any of the British residents, whether military or civilian, in the whole of the Ganges valley; nothing could have prevented the extinction—at any rate temporarily, of the British dominion in Bengal and Oudh if the mutiny had occurred before the installation of the telegraph. By means of wire (which the mutineers were not able to cut), the Governor-General, Lord Canning, sent for reinforcement from England. Again by telegrams, Lord Canning was able to get, and get quickly, invaluable contingents from Madras, from Bombay, London, and Burma. Further, he was in a position to recall a powerful force under General Outram sent on service into Persia. But most decisive of all was his ability to intercept, by an urgent and peremptory message sent by wire to Singapore, a completely equipped expeditionary army of 5000 men which was just