Tracks of Change - Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India

Klappentext This book shows how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly and inextricably woven into everyday life in colonial South Asia. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

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• Authors: Ritika Prasad, Ritika (University of North Carolina Prasad, Prasad Ritika
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781107084216
• ISBN: 978-1-107-08421-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Mechanical engineering, production engineering; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, TRANSPORTATION / Railroads / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Transportation, India, Colonialism & imperialism, Transport industries, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, Railway transport industries, Railway technology, engineering and trades, Railway Technology, Engineering & Trades, HISTORY / Asia / South / India