Colonial Subjugation Destroying local industry to ensure dependence and poverty🔗

By 1878 Hindu railway mechanics in Jamalpur in Bengal and Ajmer in Rajputana had become so proficient at maintaining locomotive trains that they started designing and building their own models at a fraction of the cost of imported British trains. The British Parliament responded by passing an Act in 1912 banning all local manufacture of trains to ensure Bharat's economic dependence on their colonial masters and destroy native technological know how.

Era of Darkness: The British Empire in Bharat (2016)