Stuart Sweeney

Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875-1914

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Produktbeschreibung

The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.

Produktdetails

• Perspectives in Economic and Social History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781138664357
• ISBN-10: 1138664359
• Artikelnr.: 45333094

Autorenporträt

Sweeney, Stuart

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; Chapter 1 'Productive' Indian Railways, 1875-1914: Space for
Gentlemanly Capitalists and Industrialists in a Mixed Economy; Chapter 2
Indian Railways and Famines, 1875-1914: Magic Wheels and Empty Stomachs;
Chapter 3 Military Railways in India, 1875-1914: Russophobia, Technology
and the Indian Taxpayer; Chapter 4 Indian Railroading: Floating Railway
Companies in the Late Nineteenth Century; Chapter 5 Northern Wars and
Southern Diplomacy: Sir Douglas Forsyth's Second Career on the Indian
Railways; Chapter 6 Eminent ICS Victorians: Richard Strachey and Theodore
Hope as Poachers and Gamekeepers; Chapter 7 Background, Proceedings and
Legacy of the Mackay Committee of 1908: Gentlemanly Capitalists, Indian
Nationalists and Laissez-Faire; conclusion Conclusion;