Indian Railways as Connected with British Empire in the EastW.H. Allen & Company, 1884 - 296 páginas |
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Términos y frases comunes
advantages Allahabad Allahabad to Delhi amount average Benares Bengal boats Bombay break of gauge bridge British broad gauge Burdwan Calcutta to Rajmahl canal capital carriage carried Cawnpore cent charge Chhattisgarh commercial construction conveyance cost cotton Delhi Delhi Railway difficulties distance district Ditto East India England estimated EUPHRATES expenditure expense export favour Ferozpur Ganges Government of India grain guaranteed companies Hooghly hundred important improved Indian Peninsula Indus interest introduced Jumna Kurrachee labour land length letter line from Calcutta Lord Dalhousie Madras maunds ment merchants metre gauge military mode native navigation officers Patna population portion proposed provinces Punjab rail railroad Railway Commission railway communication Railway Company railway system railways in India Rajmahl line revenue river roads route rupees rupees a mile Scinde Sir Bartle Frere stations steam steamers Sunderbunds Sutlej tion tons trade traffic transit travelling troops trunk line Valley W. H. ALLEN Western
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Página ci - Providence, internal tranquillity shall be restored, it is our earnest desire to stimulate the peaceful industry of India, to promote works of public utility and improvement, and to administer its government for the benefit of all our subjects resident therein.
Página 152 - England has erected no churches, no hospitals, no palaces, no schools ; England has built no bridges, made no high roads, cut no navigations, dug out no reservoirs. Every other conqueror of every other description has left some monument, either of state or beneficence, behind him. Were we to be driven out of India this day, nothing would remain to tell that it had been possessed, during the inglorious period of our dominion, by anything better than the ourang-outang or the tiger.
Página 122 - The introduction of railways may be easily made to subserve agricultural purposes by the formation of tanks, where ground is required for embankment, and by the conveyance of water along the different lines. Thus irrigation, the sine qua non of farming in the East, might be greatly extended, and the frequently recurring local famines, arising from the want of water, would be averted. The general importance of railways, viewed under this head, must...
Página 183 - At first sight, it seems to offer every thing that could be devised, in order to induce to a commercial intercourse almost without limit. There is scarcely one important article of tropical produce which is consumed in this country, either as the raw material of our manufactures, or as an article of daily use, for the production of which India is not as well, or better, adapted than any other country; while its dense and industrious population would seem to offer an illimitable demand for our manufactures.
Página 25 - BACON hath truly said that there are three things which make a nation great and prosperous, — a fertile soil, busy workshops, and easy conveyance for men and commodities from one place to another.
Página 21 - ... and yield twelve or fifteen times as much profit, as the same area without irrigation. Railways will afford the means of diminishing the amount and the cost of the military establishments. Col. Warren, Town Major of the Fort St. William, stated before a Select Committee of the House of Commons: "The practicability of receiving intelligence from distant parts of the country in as many hours as at present it requires days and even weeks...
Página 188 - ... and circumstances of India, but on the contrary, are not only a great desideratum, but with proper attention can be constructed and maintained as perfectly as in any part of Europe. The great extent of its vast plains, which may in some directions be traversed for hundreds of miles without encountering any serious undulations, the small outlay required for Parliamentary or legislative purposes, the low value of land, cheapness of labour, and the general facilities for procuring building materials,...
Página ci - In their prosperity will be our strength, in their contentment our security, and in their gratitude our best reward. And may the God of all power grant to us, and to those in authority under us, strength to carry out these our wishes for the good of our people.
Página 12 - I should say, that this mode of railway conveyance has enabled the army (comparatively to the demands made upon it, a very small one) to do the work of a very large one; you send a battalion of...
Página 31 - that in the absence of a defined and good road, a drove of several hundred head of cattle requires to be constantly watched and prevented from straying on the march, and this leads to the necessity of travelling by day in the hot weather, when the thermometer is seldom less than 100 deg.