THE IMPACT OF THE POST-TELEGRAPH SYSTEM ON SOCIO-CULTURAL LIFE AND THE FORMATION OF INFORMATION CULTURE AMONG THE POPULATION IN THE FERGANA VALLEY (LATE XIX – EARLY XX CENTURIES)

• Dilmurodjon A. Qosimov

  Independent Ph.D. Candidate, Fergana State University; Senior Lecturer at the Department of Methodology of Socio-Economic Sciences, Andijan Regional Center for Pedagogical Excellence (Institute for In-Service Teacher Training and Professional Development), Uzbekistan.

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This research paper evaluates the multi-layered socio-cultural transformations triggered by the institutionalization of the post-telegraph system in the Fergana Valley during the late XIX and early XX centuries. Moving beyond traditional economic paradigms, the study investigates how the introduction of synchronized telecommunication networks fundamentally altered the daily lives, cognitive habits, and information culture of the local population. Utilizing primary archival materials from the National Archives of Uzbekistan, the paper demonstrates how the post-telegraph infrastructure accelerated the circulation of periodic press, facilitated the transnational intellectual networking of the Jadid reformist elite, and introduced new modes of administrative and personal literacy, thereby transforming a traditional agrarian society into an active participant in early global information flows.

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