Informed by decades of archival research, this ground-breaking book provides the first detailed and holistic analysis of the impact on North India's rural and urban economies of colonial British India's major infrastructural investment in railways, covering their first fifty years (1860-1914). By 1914, a dense 4,800 mile rail network was in place in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's most populous state. This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of railways' economic, social, demographic and environmental effects in this key region. It provides new insights into how rail construction adapted to...

Informed by decades of archival research, this ground-breaking book provides the first detailed and holistic analysis of the impact on North India's rural and urban economies of colonial British India's major infrastructural investment in railways, covering their first fifty years (1860-1914). By 1914, a dense 4,800 mile rail network was in place in Uttar Pradesh (UP), India's most populous state. This book provides a wide-ranging analysis of railways' economic, social, demographic and environmental effects in this key region. It provides new insights into how rail construction adapted to...