The railroads do not break down the…

The railroads do not break down the social or cultural distances between various groups but tend to create new categories in travel.

Separate compartments in the trains are reserved exclusively for the ruling class, separating the educated and wealthy from ordinary people.

Similarly, when the Sepoy Rebellion is quelled in 1858, a British official exclaims that "the telegraph saved India."

He envisages, of course, that British interests in India will continue indefinitely.