Question

How did the railways help to grow national feeling among the indians?

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Explanation:

The first passenger train in India ran between Bombay and Thane on 16 April 1853. The political condition and the economic trend of the 19th century India induced the British to construct railways all over India. Railways, it was believed, would assist the economic development of India and provide both a market for British goods and a source of raw materials. It would also be helpful in the administration and protection of India by facilitating the movement of troops within the subcontinent. Under the guise of nation-building, the railways were primarily tools of economic exploitation and moral policing. But unknowing to British at that time, railways in India started contributing in the growth of Indian nationalism.

With railways, all educated nationalists, living in different parts of the sub-continent, came in contact with one another. They exchanged their ideas and discussed their problems which they were facing under the foreign rule.

The Indian National Congress used the railways as the umbrella to connect members from the “Indian intelligentsia and ascendant professional classes across the subcontinent.

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