Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India - Bihar, 1760s1880s

Informationen zum Autor Nitin Sinha Klappentext This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India - via roads, ferries, steamships and railways - and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Inhaltsverzeichnis Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Affective Forms to Objectification: Spatial Transition from Pre-colonial to Colonial Times; Chapter 2. India and its Interiors; Chapter 3. Going into the Interiors; Chapter 4. Knowing the Ways; Chapter 5. Controlling the Routes; Chapter 6. Changing Regime of Communication, 1820s-60s; Chapter 7. Of Men and Commodities; Chapter 8. The Wheels of Change; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Nitin Sinha, Sinha Nitin
• Editore: Anthem Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.09.2012
• EAN: 9780857284488
• ISBN: 978-0-85728-448-8
• Pagine: 310
• Serie: Anthem Modern South Asian History; Anthem South Asian Normative Traditions Studies
• Categorie: Saggistica > Storia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, HISTORY / Asia / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Colonialism and imperialism, Asian History, HISTORY / Asia / South / General