HISTORY
MISCELLENOUS QUESTIONS
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Indian merchants or money-lenders
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Private enterprise
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State Agency
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A and B both
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Detailed explanation-1: -After 1880, railways were built through private enterprise as well as state agency.
Detailed explanation-2: -101. Commencement of Railways.-The first railway line in India covering 34 kms. between Boribunder (Bombay) and Thana was opened to traffic on 16th April, 1853, barely 28years after the World’s first train roads its initial successful run between Stockton and Darlington in England in 1825.
Detailed explanation-3: -The goals of the plan to introduce railways were to lower transport costs and to give English merchants easier access to raw cotton from India. Also, the railway would simultaneously open the Indian market to British manufactured products such as cotton textiles.
Detailed explanation-4: -Ans : The British built the first rail line in India on April 16, 1853. Between Mumbai and Thane, the first business train ran.
Detailed explanation-5: -British rulers introduced railways in India in 1850. Railway began its operations in 1853.