Investment in Empire : : British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825-1849 / / Daniel Thorner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Thorner, Daniel,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1950]; ©1950
• Year of Publication: 1950
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Preface --; Table of Contents --; 1. The Setting in Britain and in India --; 2. Steam Navigation to India: Rise of the P. & O. --; 3. From Steam Navigation to Steam Railways: R. M. Stephenson --; 4. The Ε.I.R. and Its Rivals in the Ganges Valley --; 5. The G.I.P. in the Bombay Deccan --; 6. The Struggle for the Guarantee, 1846–49 --; 7. The Guaranteed Interest Railway Contract: Private Enterprise at Public Risk --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512819038; 9783110649680; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512819038
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Daniel Thorner.

The subject of this work is the process by which steamship and railway lines for India were launched. These undertakings, particularly the railways, involved a large-scale investment of British capital in India. The terms under which this capital moved, and, more precisely, the struggle to secure these terms, form the heart of this study.