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Blog Entry# 2200125
Posted: Mar 17 2017 (01:34)

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Mar 16 2017 (20:44)   देश की सबसे पुरानी रेल लाइन का इतिहास रेलवे जर्नल में छपेगा वेस्टर्न घाट : रेल ट्रैक बिछाने में 24,000 ने दी थी शहादत

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Mar 17 2017 (20:04)
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Respect to that 24000 people. Everyone needs to remember that it is because of railways constructed through thull and bhor ghats that Mumbai is connected to majority of India, Mumbai pune/nashik have come closer inspite of a yawning divide between them. But we need to appreciate that it is because of British that India has good rail network. Britishers constructed 1000s of kms in 100 years, that too through difficult terrains like thull, bhor, parsik etc. I respect the infrastructural upgradation by indian govt after independence, but had the tracks started to build after independence, indian railways would not even be half the size of network today. But hopefully, Suresh prabhu govt is much appreciable.
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Mar 17 2017 (20:33)
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Appreciate Britishers...really!!! People were starving bcoz of famine and they were busy in construction Railway lines just for their personal benefit and you think that they did a commendable job? Bondage laborers were used to construct these Railway lines under Pathetic work condition, no Human rights and they were forcibly compelled by the autocratic British empire to work in that inhuman conditions just for their own personal benefit. Thousand died in the course of construction but nobody was there to even cry for them and still you think that they did all this for the betterment of India Citizens? Bombay was a industrial hub and a major port city so for the convenient movement of their goods they needed this Railway line and that was the sole purpose behind the construction of Railway lines in hilly terrains and ghat areas.
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Mar 17 2017 (22:27)
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Sorry and Thank you, but I wasn't really aware of this fact. Thanks for clarifying. British had ideas, technology and determination, but they should not have used our Indian labourers inhumanly.
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Mar 17 2017 (22:54)
Arun   1967 blog posts
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the famine that all talk about was during world war 2 because of 1 man Churchill and his hatred towards Indians.
there were famines at other times too, but you cant connect building of indian railways to all famines. climate had a major role in famines.
bonded labor is there for centuries, it still exists in many parts of India like in north karnataka. bonded labor and caste system-all feudal system are in India even before British came, still exists after they left.
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the people who died worked for livelihood not all were bonded.
many died converting the lumding-silchar section to BG too. no one sheds tears for them.
many died building many metros, flyovers, highways bridges too, no one sheds tears for them too. it is called hazards of work.
but deliberate bondage was carried by indian kings - many lower caste men and women were bonded and made to work building places of worship and palaces to glorify kings and queens.
i am not supporting british but pointing the problem of bondage exists for a long time. not all railway lines they built were for looting india. many were for people too.
imagine IR if british had not been.
for real forced labor-bonded, it was japanese who killed a lot of indians. building Burma death railways.

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Mar 18 2017 (00:27)
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Churchill was the Hitler of Britain, Directly or Indirectly he killed almost 4 million Indians by starving them to death during Bengal famine but Churchill wasn't an isolated case, his predecessors weren't saints too. Cutting the things short, Britain just literally looted India and did atrocities over Indian people and nothing could compensate that. They made Railway lines one and only to facilitate movement of goods to make good profit from that. Britishers just demolished Indian economy and BTW they didn't constructed the Railway lines in Indian for free, tax money paid by Indians were used for that.
Second, Japanese killed Captive soldier who were fighting someone other's battle during world war but Britain killed the citizens of it's own colony
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just for it's profit and their is great difference between these two scenarios.

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