Raja Ravi Varma, Railways, GIPR

 British started constructing railways for their own advantage, choosing routes using their own considerations. 

"...Ravi Varma’s brother too would tell, ‘the Railways and the telegraph’ not only ‘annihilated time and distance, the general feeling of security of persons and property, which prevails from Cape Cameron [sic] to the Himalayas under the benign rule of the British Government, [also] increased ten fold the number of visitors to the sacred banks of the Ganges’..." (Manu S. Pillai's "False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma")

A lot of the above can be challenged but it did have some other effects. 

Great Raja Ravi Varma was an artist whose work was impacted by the Great Indian Peninsula Railway (GIP), which was the first passenger railway in India. The railway allowed people to travel, including the artist brothers Raja Ravi Varma and C Raja Raja Varma.

Train also serviced the Ravi Varma Press when it was shifted to Lonavala.

 

Notice G. I. P at the bottom right corner that stands for The Great Indian Peninsula Railway (1853-1951)

 

 

 

VT station dated 1899 printed at Ravi Varma Press

 Raja Ravi Varma's 'The Toddy Tapper', notice a train behind the tapper, almost like from Satyajit Ray's  Pather Panchali