Why did the British introduce railways in India? Explain any three reasons.
Describe the police organisation of Lord Cornwallis.
Highlight any three major improvements that took place in Delhi before the Delhi Durbar of 1
How did some old trading centres lose their glory and became de urbanised?
What type of discrimination did the people of Calcutta experience after it became the British
India?
Answers
Explanation:
Ans 1.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.
ans 2.Lord cornwallis organised the police into regular force. A superintendent of police looked after each district with the assistance of a deputy superintendent of police. Each district was divided into thanks under darogas. Villages and towns were looked after by chowkidars and kotwals.
Ans 4.In the Part the name given was the white down where as in Calcutta it was known as the black town. This is basically a part of racial discrimination. The part which was associated with India basically filled with more but in the British part there were big lands and huge spaces.