in ; from Howrah to Raniganj in - . The first railway line in south India ran from Madras to Arakonam in . Royapuram was one of the railway stations inaugurated in that year. First Train: Bombay(Mumbai) to Thane of them joined them and swelled their numbers in central India.
The British proclaimed Pindari War. But it turned out to be a war against Marathas and the outcome of this prolonged war ( to ) was that the whole of Central India came under British rule. Suppression of Thuggee The Thugs were robbers operating between Delhi and Agra from the fourteenth century. They were bound together by oaths and ritual and murdered unsuspecting travellers in the name of the goddess Kali.
Bentinck placed William Sleeman in charge of the operation to eliminate the Thuggee menace. Between and more than three thousand Thugs were convicted. Five hundred became approvers. By the problem of thuggee had ceased to exist.
Thuggees Abolition of Sati Bentinck showed great courage and humanity by his decision to abolish sati , the practice of burning widows alive with the corpses of their husbands. Previous governors- general were reluctant to prohibit the custom as an interference in religion but Bentinck enacted a law (Sati Abolition Act, ) to put an end to this practice. Raja Rammohan Roy’s campaigns and efforts played a decisive part in getting this inhuman practice abolished. William Bentinck The villagers burning themselves to avoid Pindaris XI History - Lesson - - Effects of British Rule were needed to build railway tracks.
Indian trees, particularly sal, deodar , and teak , were preferred for their strength over other Indian timbers. These three species were intensively exploited. Much sal was extracted from the forests of the Jungle Mahals of West Bengal and Bihar. Timber went to England too for the building of railways.
The myth that India’s forests were inexhaustible was exploded. It was in this background that the colonial state, in order to manage and control forest resources, started the Forest Department and passed the Indian Forest Act, . This