Stuart Sweeney

Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875-1914 (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317323761
• Artikelnr.: 43417506

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;