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 I...

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Main Author: Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: Taylor & Francis 2018
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