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*Rootsweb India Message Board [http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.asia.india.general/2717.2/mb.ashx post] about the occupation 'sleeper agent'
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The early railway companies were UK companies operating in India. Later the British Government of India (GOI) owned the majority and either managed them directly or leased them back to private management. From circa 1925 the GOI began to call in the leases, operating the services directly. By 1945, most railways were both owned and managed by the GOI.
*[[:Category:Guaranteed Railways|Guaranteed Railways]] included those railway companies, formed by 1859, to which the East India Company, later the GOI, guaranteed a fixed return on capital.
*[[:Category:Private Railways|Private Railways]] (those built without a guarantee) were few in number - only two were formed in the period 1850-1866 and both these were re-constituted by 1870.
*[http://www.virginia.edu/history/EIH/?p=151 ""Fire-Carriages" of the Raj: The Indian Railway and its Rapid Development in British India"] by Amit K. Sharma 2010 ''Essays In History. Annual Journal of the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia''
*[http://www.trains-worldexpresses.com/400/410.htm Imperial Indian Mail <nowiki>[</nowiki>and other trains<nowiki>]</nowiki>] trains-worldexpresses.com
==== Historical books online====
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=StwDAAAAQAAJ&pg=PR1 ''Railways in India, by an engineer''] 1847 Google Books
