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Indian Railways - One Hundred Years 1853 to 1953

1953

the whole face of the kingdom is to be tattooed with these odious deformities—huge mounds are to intersect our beautiful valleys ; the noise and stench of locomotive steam-engines are to disturb the quietude of the peasant the farmer and the gentleman ; and the roaring of the bullocks the bleating of sheep and the grunting of pigs to keep up one continual uproar through the night along the lines [...] Beyond the Ghats after a few hundred miles of ucountry lay the Vindhyachal Mountains blocking the route to the north and the east on the one hand and to the south on the other. [...] The Hooghly the Brahmaputra the Padma the Ganga the Jamuna the Mahanadi the Narbada the Godavari and a whole network of their tributaries and seasonal torrents required the best skill of engineers a great deal of costly material and a large number of trained labourers to build bridges over their untamed waters. [...] The figures for 1891-92 of the Great Indian Peninsula and the Bombay and Baroda Railways show that the share of surplus profits of the shareholders of the former in that year was Rs 51 87 260 and of the latter Rs 17 98 260 besides contributions to provident fund.' The shareholders made a further substantial gain in terms of the exchange ratio. [...] Therefore as long as the management is in the hands of companies the exclusion of Indians from higher ranks of the railway service must continue whereas if the management were to be passed over to the Government there would be 'more state employment of Indians in the higher ranks of the services and this in due course is bound to lead to greater economy in the management of the railways.' Du

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Pages
287
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.145558
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-xi unknown view
I. The Beginning
1-9 unknown view
II. A Network is Built
10-15 unknown view
III. Growth of Companies
16-26 unknown view
IV. Towards Nationalisation
27-34 unknown view
V. State Assumes Control
35-40 unknown view
VI. The Track
41-45 unknown view
VII. Battle of the Ghats
46-52 unknown view
VIII. Bridges
53-62 unknown view
IX. Pride in Architecture
63-viii unknown view
X. Permanent Way and Signals
69-viii unknown view
XI. Coaches
77-iv unknown view
XII. Wagons
85-ii unknown view
XIII. Locomotives
89-x unknown view
XIV. Keeping the Wheels Moving
101-ii unknown view
XV. Chittaranjan
105-110 unknown view
XVI. Electricity Introduces a Revolution
111-115 unknown view
XVII. Hill Railways
116-121 unknown view
XVIII. Employees
122-128 unknown view
XIX. Passenger Traffic
129-134 unknown view
XX. A Tourist’s Paradise
135-138 unknown view
XXI. Goods Traffic
139-145 unknown view
XXII. Development of Industries and Postal Services
146-149 unknown view
XXIII. Since Independence
150-161 unknown view
XXIV. Regrouping of Railways
162-166 unknown view
XXV. Looking Ahead
167-172 unknown view
Appendices
173-iv unknown view
Bibliography
197-200 unknown view

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