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.216 THE RAILWAY IND~STRY AND COMMERCE OF INDIA.
(b) Countries. which have had railways $ince 1840
1 Switzerland 15 653
t Hungart 1371,004
3 Denmar\ 20 69
4 Spain 17 ), 190
(c) Countries which have had railways since 1850
1 Brazil 134
2 Chile l20
3 India' 838
4 Norway 42
5 Sweden 375
6 ~rgentina unavailable
It is abQut 1850 that Germany with a population
of 35,900,000 possessed 5,818 km of railroads, i.e.
);6 km per 10,000 inhabitants. But about 1860 with
a population of 38,100,000 she possessed 11, 160 km,
i.e. 2.9 km per 10,000. the chronofogical distance
between Germany· and India in .pciint of km per 10,000
is then embodied in the following equation:
India (1925) '~9=Germany between 1850 (1.6) and
1860 (2.9).
That is, India in 1925 was somewbere between
th~ German conditions of 1850 and 1860, much
nearer to 1850 than to 1860. For India to attain to the
German conditions of 1860 , is to-day not yet a question
of practical politics. Indeed even Japan in 1925 with
2.7 is not on a par with the Germany of 1 e60: Weare to
tlnd~rstand automatically that between 1850· and 1860
~r, say, about 1853, the year of the commencement. of
:railroad operatio~s in India~ the German people w~re as
p~~itive in railway mileage: as the Indian in 1925~