railway infrastructure in colonial India. Railways had an immediate impact on trade and development in the predominantly … agricultural India. In this paper, we show that the positive effects of railways have persisted over more than a century. Districts …

category with an average PCNSDP much above India’s, and they managed to grow in terms of their infrastructure endowments. They …India witnessed high levels of growth in the last decade but national levels of poverty and inequality remain high …. Infrastructure provision is seen as a particularly important instrument for helping in regional development where government can play …