Analyse the state of roads during the British regime.

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The roads constructed before the advent of the British rule were not fit for modern transport.

1. The roads that were built primarily served the purposes of mobilising the army within India and drawing out raw materials from the countryside to the nearest railway station or port, to send these to England or other foreign destinations.

2. There was always an acute shortage of all-weather roads to reach rural areas during the rainy season.

As a result, the people living in these areas were adversely affected during natural calamities and famines.