TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION
RAILWAYS
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Lord Dalhousie
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Mahatma Gandhi
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George Stephenson
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Zhan Tianyou
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Detailed explanation-1: -Option b-Lord Dalhousie served as the Governor-General of India from 1848 to 1856. He is also said to have convinced the British to introduce the railways in India through his famous Railway minutes of 1853. Thus, he is regarded as the father of Indian railways and it is the right option.
Detailed explanation-2: -Dalhousie introduced a new system of internal communication in India. He was the Father of Indian Railways.
Detailed explanation-3: -George Stephenson (9 June 1781 – 12 August 1848) was a British civil engineer and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the “Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians as a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement.
Detailed explanation-4: -The first railway on Indian sub-continent ran over a stretch of 21 miles from Bombay to Thane. The idea of a railway to connect Bombay with Thane, Kalyan and with the Thal and Bhore Ghats inclines first occurred to Mr. George Clark, the Chief Engineer of the Bombay Government, during a visit to Bhandup in 1843.
Detailed explanation-5: -George Stephenson is known as the ‘father of the railways’.