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Critically comment in 150 words: “The British railway construction policy in India benefitted British economy in the nineteenth century.”

  • UPSC 2017
  • Economic Impact of British Colonial Rule

British railway policy, framed under Lord Dalhousie's Railway Minute (1853), was designed chiefly to serve imperial economic interests rather than autonomous Indian development.

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