Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency

A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

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Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the impact of railways on colonial Indian society in the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century. It contributes to the wider debates on how far technology can propel social change, regardless of the political context of transmission. The author finds that the impact of railways was not as radical as is sometimes paint

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 155mm x 233mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 396g
• ISBN-13: 9780367590987
• ISBN-10: 0367590980
• Artikelnr.: 69703310

Autorenporträt

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay is a history lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Glossary
Introduction
Chapter 1: On Right Time? Railway Time And Travel Discipline In Colonial India
Chapter 2: A Ticket To Control? Limits Of Railway Travel Discipline In Colonial India
Chapter 3: A Shared Space? Contestation Of Station Spaces And Railway Travel Discipline In Colonial India
Chapter 4: Chariots Of Equality? Travelling In Railway Carriages And Social Transformation In Colonial India
Chapter 5: To Eat Or Not To Eat? Railway Travel, Commensality And Social Change In Colonial India
Chapter 6: A Nation On The Move? Railway Travel And Conceptualisations Of Space In Colonial India
Chapter 7: Shared Spaces, Shifting Identities: Railway Travel And Notions Of Identity And Community In Colonial India
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index