The Imperial Underbelly
Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia
Herausgeber: Cederlöf, Gunnel
The Imperial Underbelly
Workers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinavia
Herausgeber: Cederlöf, Gunnel
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The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire.
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The volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor's private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire.
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- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 513g
- ISBN-13: 9781032320922
- ISBN-10: 1032320923
- Artikelnr.: 65611503
- Verlag: Jenny Stanford Publishing
- Seitenzahl: 224
- Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2022
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
- Gewicht: 513g
- ISBN-13: 9781032320922
- ISBN-10: 1032320923
- Artikelnr.: 65611503
Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History, Linnaeus University, Sweden, and member of the Linnaeus University Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies. She specialises in the environmental, legal, and colonial history of India and South Asia. She has taught at Uppsala University and KTH Royal Institute of Technology. She is the author of Founding an Empire on India's North-Eastern Frontiers, 1790-1840: Climate, Commerce, Polity (2014), Landscapes and the Law: Environmental Politics, Regional Histories, and Contests over Nature (2008, 2019), Bonds Lost: Subordination, Conflict and Mobilisation in Rural South India c. 1900-1970 (1997, 2020), At Nature's Edge: The Global Present and Long-Term History (2018 with M. Rangarajan), Subjects, Citizens and Law: Colonial and independent India (2017 with S. Das Gupta), and Ecological Nationalisms: Nature, Livelihoods, and Identities in South Asia (2006, 2014 with K. Sivaramakrishnan).
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of
Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'
Gunnel Cederlöf
2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial
Railway'
Arun Kumar
3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social
and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'
Radhika Krishnan
4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens'
Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western
India'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the
British Empire'
Eleonor Marcussen
7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern
Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'
Erik Wångmar
8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and
the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'
Malin Lennartsson
Bibliography
List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens
Archives
Index
List of Contributors
1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of
Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'
Gunnel Cederlöf
2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial
Railway'
Arun Kumar
3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social
and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'
Radhika Krishnan
4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens'
Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western
India'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the
British Empire'
Eleonor Marcussen
7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern
Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'
Erik Wångmar
8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and
the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'
Malin Lennartsson
Bibliography
List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens
Archives
Index
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of
Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'
Gunnel Cederlöf
2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial
Railway'
Arun Kumar
3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social
and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'
Radhika Krishnan
4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens'
Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western
India'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the
British Empire'
Eleonor Marcussen
7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern
Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'
Erik Wångmar
8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and
the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'
Malin Lennartsson
Bibliography
List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens
Archives
Index
List of Contributors
1. 'Circular Migrations, Capital, and Opportunity: A Global History of
Scandinavia and India at the Industrial Turn'
Gunnel Cederlöf
2. 'The Life of Contract Capitalism and the Building of the Colonial
Railway'
Arun Kumar
3. 'Bureaucracy and Ideologies of Control in British India: Locating Social
and Professional Networks within the 'Contract System' in Railway Building'
Radhika Krishnan
4. 'Social Capital and its Limits in Fortune Making: Joseph Stephens'
Enterprises in India and Scandinavia, 1859-69'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
5. 'Labour Practices and Wellbeing: Construction Workers in 1860s Western
India'
Dhiraj Kumar Nite
6. 'Circulation of Knowledge, Capital and Goods: Scandinavia and the
British Empire'
Eleonor Marcussen
7. 'Colonial Entrepreneurial Capital in the Industrialisation of Southern
Sweden: The Huseby Estate under Joseph Stephens'
Erik Wångmar
8. 'Fulfilling One's Duty, Making a Future: The Iron Master's Daughters and
the Unceasing Project of Rearing a Family'
Malin Lennartsson
Bibliography
List of Publications from research in the Huseby Estate and Joseph Stephens
Archives
Index