History & Civics
Answer
The railways were looked down upon as means to break social order and caste rules. In the railway compartments, the higher castes and the lower castes were made to sit side by side. The people believed that the British had introduced such practices to defy their caste and religion. The mass of people regarded it as an interference with the caste rules.
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