Steno Kailash Chandra Vol-2 Dictation No. 813

If you scan the history of the railways in this country you will see that it was the Presidency towns-Bombay, Madras and Calcutta that determined the pattern of our railways as well as of our industrial and economical growth. The British when they landed in this country established trading centers called forts. In Chennai it was Fort St. George in Kolkata it was Fort St. Williams and in Mumbai it was merely a Fort and there was one in Surat also. It is these trading establishments which determined the pattern of government, the pattern of administration and every other pattern under the British regime.