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.
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.
Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s' departs from the dominant scholarship in South Asian history that focuses narrowly on railways, and instead argues that any discussion of railway-generated changes needs to see such changes, at least up to the 1…
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.