Railways in Modern India

Name: Railways in Modern India
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ISBN: 9780195648287

ISBN-10: 0195648285

ISBN-13: 9780195648287

Edition: 2001

Authors: Ian J. Kerr

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Part of the Themes in Indian History series, this valuable book reprints important writings on India's railway history. A substantial introduction places the sections in their historical and historiographical contexts, while the body of the work identifies neglected topics and outlines a new approach to the study of Indian railways. It will greatly appeal to scholars and students as well as to the general reader of Indian history.

Book details

List price: $55.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/29/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 374
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.43" long x 1.06" tall
Weight: 1.320
Language: English

IAN J. KERR is a retired Professor of History and Senior Scholar in the Department of History at the University of Manitoba. He is also a Professorial Research Associate in the Department of History at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London and he is the author of Railways in Modern India (2002) and Building the Railways of the Raj (1997).



Introduction




The future results of the British rule in India




The opening of the Bhore Ghaut incline of the great Indian Peninsula Railway




The condition of India : railways




The pattern of railway development in India




City-hinterland relations and the development of a regional elite in nineteenth-century Bombay




Railways and their impact on Bengal's economy, 1870-1920




Railways




Economic change and the railways in North India, 1860-1914




The records of Indian railways : a neglected resource




A history of Indian railways




Modern agents of change




Bodies of knowledge/highways of steel : science and technology in modern India




The building of India's railways : the application of western technology in the colonial periphery 1850-1920