Nitin Sinha

Broschiertes Buch

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India

Bihar, 1760s-1880s

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 509g
• ISBN-13: 9781783083114
• ISBN-10: 1783083115
• Artikelnr.: 41372026