Imperial technology and 'native' agency : : a social history of railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920 / / Aparajita Mukhopadhyay.

• VerfasserIn: Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita,
• Place / Publishing House: London ;, New York : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)

This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and complex than anticipated either by India's colonial railway builders or currently assumed by post-colonial scholars.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- On right time: railway time and travel discipline in Colonial India -- A ticket to control: limits of railway travel discipline in Colonial India -- A shared space: contestation of station spaces and railway travel discipline in Colonial India -- Chariots of equality: travelling in railway carriages and social transformation in Colonial India -- To eat or not to eat: railway travel, commensality and social change in Colonial India -- A nation on the move: railway travel and conceptualisations of space in Colonial India -- Shared spaces, shifting identities: railway travel and notions of identity and community in Colonial India -- Conclusion.