Railway Transportation Technology in Colonial Madras City, 1895 – 1947

Transport is the one of the essential thing to determine the country development. An attempt has been made to analyze and investigate the transportation development of colonial Madras. Especially railway transportation. On the whole, Madras having an excellent record of the development of transport when compare with other cities in India. Colonialism was the representative of the modern trade development in the west relocated in the east. This paper covers the special emphasis on the related aspects of the transport in the colonial Madras and also deduces some conclusions and suggestions on certain issues of the matter deals with the earlier studies in this area. This study reveals that Madras city has witnessed a model for the evaluation of transport and communication.