The Railway and Telegraph in India: Monuments of British Rule or Symbols of Indian Nationhood?

This paper examines how the development of the railway-telegraph technological complex impacted the tenuous relationship between the rulers and those they ruled; the British and the Indians. Through the experience of building and operating the railway, Indians came to understand the railway and tele...

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Main Author: Fonseka, Prashant L.
Format: Others
Published: Scholarship @ Claremont 2012
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Online Access:http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/378
http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1384&context=cmc_theses