Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency: A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920

ISBN-13: 9780367590987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 242 str.

Aparajita Mukhopadhyay

Opis

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

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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