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Empires are in constant competition with their near peer opponents. Whether it be trade, innovation, or even war, the constant need that drives these forces is always motivated by the country’s survival and its place in the world. Railways are one such innovation that impacted trade, communication, and war. Great Britain was at one point the largest empire in the world, with one of its key holdings in India. Looking at the map, we can see that India dwarfs the British isles many times over, so the distances to travel and to communicate would present a challenge in itself. India was an economic anchor that the British Empire exploited for its own benefit. Getting the resources and materials needed to feed the empire was not easy, and was also a time-consuming process. The recent invention of the railway would be brought to India in the mid-19th century. It was intended to not only transport goods, but serve as a means of improving communication and transporting military personnel between cities to expedite their use wherever needed. Colonizers would also perceive that the mere creation of a railroad would bring “backward societies into normative history.” Whatever method was used to implement the railroad, this line of thinking by the powers that be, would justify the end state of railroad creation on the continent. While railroads weren’t built with the primary goal of transporting people, this was the biproduct of the development of such routes. This enabled the people of the continent to travel further and quicker, while also having a drastic effect in how people communicated and traded.