ABSTRACT
The means of communication in India may be classified Internal communications. The existing system of railway communication in India Indian dates from the administration of Lord Dalhousie. The system thus sketched out was promptly carried into execution, and by 1871 Bombay was put into direct railway communication with the sister Presidencies of Calcutta and Madras. The BhopalGwalior line will also be made on the assisted system ; together with other lines belonging to the inner circle of communication in the interior of India. From a military point of view, rapid communication by rail has now superseded the old marching routes as completely as in any European country. After the East Indian Railway was fairly opened, through steamers ceased to ply upon the Ganges; and the steam flotilla on the Indus shrank to insignificance when through communication by rail became possible between Multan and Karachi.
