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| Type | Commercial Circular |
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| Topic | ticket-checking |
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continent came to be burdened with a multi-gauge railway network. To blame those who laid the foundations of such a system, which has in the course of time, emerged as two separate countrywide systems, one broad gauge and the other metre gauge, is to ignore the inexorable facts of history which no human endeavour can ever escape Directors of the East India Company and the Government of India, on the
af yFISTORY OF, INDIAN RAILWA oI] es on i, sy | |! Te i INS eee ns 0 0 0 है oS 0) “ to) This book fulfils the need for an authentic, readable volume which should narrate in some detail the saga of the incep¬ tion, building, development, oiganisation, management and operation of the Indian Rail¬ ways. The rail network in India has played an important part in the defence of her borders against external aggression, the country’s economic pro¬ gress, the development of her agriculture and industry, the evolution of her social struc¬ ture and the integeration of her people. Apart from an historical account, the present volume describes the evolution of the managerial structure and the financial administration of the Indian Railways. Earlier attempts in this field have many gaps which this book tries to cover. It is a standard, chronological his¬ tory of the system, which will be valuable to the general reader, the research scholar and railwaymen, particularly the new entrants, who will be able to form a fair idea of the significance and the dimen¬ sions of the network. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from Public.Resource.Org https://archive.org/details/historyofindianrOOgskh A HISTORY OF INDIAN RAILWAYS A History of INDIAN RAILWAYS G. S. Khosla MINISTRY OF RAILWAYS (RAILWAY BOARD) GOVERNMENT OF INDIA NEW DELHI By the same author Railway Management in India—Thacker & Co. Ltd., Bombay : 1972 Transport—Ministry of Information and Broadcasting : 1972 The book is based on the factual information pertaining to the history and growth of the Indian Railways collected by the author. The views ex¬ pressed in this book do not necessarily represent the official views of the Ministry of Railways. Price : Rs. 200 First Edition, 1988 © Ministry of Railways (Railway Board) All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording and/or otherwise, without the written permission of the publishers. Co-published by the Ministry of Railways (Railway Board), Government of India and Y. P. Chopra of A H Wheeler & Co., (P) Ltd. 23. L. B. Shastri Marg, Allahabad and printed at Excel Printers, Allahabad. Foreword One Hundred Thirty-four years ago, one April afternoon history was made at Bori Bunder in Bombay, when to the booming sound of a 21 gun salute, the first train on Indian soil started its maiden journey of 21 miles to Thane. The steam engine and metal track had become a reality in India. Since then, the ubiquitous rail track has travelled the length and breadth of the subcontinent, linking far away places and wea¬ ving an iron link among the diverse peoples of India. Today the Railways have a spread of 62,000 route kms., the biggest in Asia and the second biggest, under single management, in the entire world. The growth and evolution of Indian Railways is an exciting story of nation building by Indian people and their journey to political freedom, and economic development. In fact, the history of our Railways is truly the history of our national development. Whether it is the route in the quadrangle connecting India’s major metropolis, Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta and Madras, or whether it is the industrial artery linking the temples of modern India at Bhilai, Durgapur, Rourkela, Vizag, Tatanagar, the Indian Rail¬ ways are the life-line of the nation and the wheels of our economy. There¬ fore, the performance of this national transport network easily acts as the barometer of the health of the nation and the economy. It is in this background of the gigantic size of the Indian Railways operation today and its importance for the national economy, that any book on the history of the Railways becomes very important. Apart from indicating the milestones of its progress from Bori Bunder to the Metro Railway at Calcutta
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