GK
INDIAS HERITAGE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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True
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False
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Either A or B
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -A British plan for railway development in India was first initiated in 1832, but the core of the pressure for building railways came from London in the 1840s. In the year 1844, private entrepreneurs were permitted to launch a railway system by Lord Hardinge, who was the Governor-General of India.
Detailed explanation-2: -The expectation was railways would lower transport costs and allow English merchants easier access to raw cotton from India. Simultaneously railways would open Indian markets to British manufactured products such as cotton tex-tiles.
Detailed explanation-3: -But who took on the hard graft of building them? That task fell to vast gangs of itinerant labourers, also known as navvies. By 1850 a quarter of a million workers-a force bigger than the Army and Navy combined-had laid down 3, 000 miles of railway line across Britain, connecting people like never before.