Hello and welcome to the sixteenth episode of India Colonised, a podcast where we unravel our colonial roots through stories and legends. Our podcast explores untraversed fields of our past that constantly shape our world. I am your host Omer Haq and today we will be continuing to talk about the railways during the Raj and how it affected the local populace, trade, and agriculture. The construction of the railway not only helped the colonizers to expand the territory and have effective control over it but also helped them to ideologically justify their rule over India.