British Quote by Linda Colley

The two biggest legacies of the Raj are the unification of India and the English language. Moreover, without the railways, India would not have…

— Michael Portillo

That more than 90 per cent of the Indian population should continue to be illiterate even after 175 years of British rule in this…

— Syama Prasad Mukherjee

We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then!…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order; but, as a by-product, they served to unite the country, making…

— Michael Portillo

British-built railways in India helped the British to make money and maintain order and, as a by-product, served to unite the country, ripe for…

— Michael Portillo

When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions. I saw…

— Pankaj Mishra

The generation that migrated to the West in the 1970s or 1960s has now lived more in the West than India, and India has…

— Archie Panjabi

When I was growing up, and periodically going to India to visit my grandmother, my classmates would often ask me about the trains. There…

— Nish Kumar

In India, we are forced to choose our specialisation very early, whereas in some other countries, this can be done much later in life.…

— Anand Mahindra

“The British ruled nineteenth-century India with unshakeable self-confidence, buttressed by protocol, alcohol and a lot of gall.”

— Shashi Tharoor

A lot of the Indians who came to North America in the '70s, and who made very successful adjustments, always had an idea of…

— Clark Blaise

If it was not for Rajiv Gandhi, urbanization in India would have been history.

— Kushal Pal Singh