Imperial technology and 'native' agency : a social history of railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920 / Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
データ種別 | 電子ブック |
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出版情報 | London ; NewYork : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group , 2018 |
本文言語 | 英語 |
大きさ | 1 online resource |
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内容注記 | 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 |
一般注記 | "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 Indias colonial railway builders or currently assumed by post-colonial scholars. At a related level, the book argues that this complex outcome of the impact of railways on colonial Indian society was a product of the interaction between the colonial context of technology transfer and the Indian railway passengers who mediated this process at an everyday level. In other words, this book claims that the colonised natives were not bystanders in this process of imposition of an imperial technology from above. On the contrary, Indians, both as railway passengers and otherwise influenced the nature and the direction of the impact of an oft-celebrated tool of Empire. The historiographical departures suggested in the book is based on examining railway spaces as social spaces a methodological index influenced by Henri Lefebvres idea of social spaces as means of control, domination and power."--Provided by publisher Open Access Includes bibliographical references and index Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Site, viewed 11/03/2020) |
著者標目 | *Mukhopadhyay, Aparajita, |
件 名 | BSH:Electronic books FREE:History LCSH:Railroads -- India -- Social aspects -- History 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:Railroad travel -- India -- Social aspects -- History 全ての件名で検索 BISACSH:TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- Pictorial 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Railroads -- Social aspects 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Civilization FREE:Imperialism FREE:Railroads FREE:Education LCSH:India -- 1765-1947. -- Civilization 全ての件名で検索 LCSH:India -- British occupation, 1765-1947. -- History 全ての件名で検索 FREE:Asia FREE:India FREE:United States FREE:British Occupation of India 1765-1947) FREE:1765-1947 FREE:1600-1775 |
分 類 | DC23:385.0954/09034 |
書誌ID | ED00003807 |
ISBN | 9781315397108 |