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Reality of Britishers, how they looted India and fooled Indians
The railways were first conceived of by the East India Company, like everything else in that firm’s calculations, for its own benefit.
British shareholders made absurd amounts of money by investing in the railway, where the government guaranteed returns double those of government stocks, paid entirely from Indian, and not British, taxes. It was a splendid racket for Britons, at the expense of the Indian taxpayer
Governor General Lord Hardinge argued in 1843 that the railways would be beneficial “to the commerce, government and military control of the country”. In their very conception and construction, the Indian railways were a colonial scam.