Imperial technology and 'native' agency a social history of railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920
This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by In...
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009428803006719 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- On right time: railway time and travel discipline in Colonial India
- A ticket to control: limits of railway travel discipline in Colonial India
- A shared space: contestation of station spaces and railway travel discipline in Colonial India
- Chariots of equality: travelling in railway carriages and social transformation in Colonial India
- To eat or not to eat: railway travel, commensality and social change in Colonial India
- A nation on the move: railway travel and conceptualisations of space in Colonial India
- Shared spaces, shifting identities: railway travel and notions of identity and community in Colonial India
- Conclusion.
