Investment in Empire : : British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825-1849 / / 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 th...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [1950] ©1950 |
| Year of Publication: | 1950 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (198 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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