“We (the British) have given India not only internal peace and security of life and property, but we have profoundly modified the most prominent characteristics of the country….” This is what The Sphere, a British weekly on December 2, 1911, said as it pompously praised The Crown for gifting India the railways, irrigation and the English language. In the many decades since then, the view that the British built railways that benefited Indians has been thoroughly rubbished and has been called out for what it was: yet another tool for the British to bleed India of its resources to serve its own needs.
