Ritika Prasad (Charlotte University of North Carolina)

Tracks of Change

Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tracks of Change explores how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly woven into everyday life in colonial India, how people negotiated with the growing presence of railways, and how this process has shaped India's history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 127mm x 51mm
• Gewicht: 620g
• ISBN-13: 9781107084216
• ISBN-10: 1107084210
• Artikelnr.: 43674202

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The nature of the beast? An elementary logic for third-class travel
2. Demand and supply? Railway space and social taxonomy
3. Crime and punishment: in the shadow of railway embankments
4. Railway time: speed, synchronization, and 'time-sense'
5. Contagion and control: managing diseases, epidemics and mobility
6. Designing rule: power, efficiency and anxiety
7. Marking citizen from denizen: dissent, 'rogues', and rupture
Conclusion.