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00:00The voyage to the sea was a very dangerous one.
00:03Because the Indian army would attack the ships.
00:08So they had a plan to connect the railways to Burma and then to India.
00:16But the Siam Railway and the Burma Railway were not connected.
00:20There was a 415 km interval between them.
00:24So they built a railway to complete that interval.
00:28The name of the railway was Siam-Burma Railway.
00:31But due to a lot of damage in the construction of the railway,
00:38a new name was given to it.
00:40It was called the Marana Railway.
00:42Today, everyone knows the Marana Railway.
00:44It is the Siam-Burma Railway.
00:47So this is the Marana Railway.
00:49Many people don't even know that such a thing happened.
00:56Can you tell us about that?
00:58How many people went through that?
01:00What difficulties did they go through?
01:03First of all, to build the railway,
01:07even if the railway was in Thailand,
01:12the Thais didn't use it.
01:14They thought that only foreigners would use it.
01:17So they decided to go to Malaya.
01:20So they took the workers from Malaya.
01:24Even though they took the Seniors and Malayalis,
01:30the Indians were the labourers.
01:35So it was easier for them to take them.
01:38At the same time, they told the community leaders
01:42to recruit them.
01:44So they took lakhs of people.
01:47So they didn't have to go through all that.