Nitin Sinha

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India

Bihar, 1760s-1880s

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India - via roads, ferries, steamships and railways - and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9780857284488
• ISBN-10: 0857284487
• Artikelnr.: 36529571

Autorenporträt

Nitin Sinha is a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies) in Berlin. His current work focuses on the socio-historical dimensions of the River Ganga in India. He has published on issues of transport and the 'Mutiny' of 1857, mobility and criminality, and railway labour movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial India.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations
List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. From Affective Forms to Objectification: Spatial Transition from Pre-colonial to Colonial Times
Chapter 2. India and its Interiors
Chapter 3. Going into the Interiors
Chapter 4. Knowing the Ways
Chapter 5. Controlling the Routes
Chapter 6. Changing Regime of Communication, 1820s-60s
Chapter 7. Of Men and Commodities
Chapter 8. The Wheels of Change
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index