Author

Publication

2009 - Orient BlackSwan, Hyderabad, India

Language

English

Word Count

90,500 words, Guess

Page Count

362 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139788125035275
  • ISBN-108125035273
  • Library of Congress Control Number2009346316
  • Open LibraryOL23656897M

Classifications

  • LCCHE271.Z7A-.Z7ZO (H1)+

First Sentence

This study has two objectives. The first is to forge conceptual tools for the examination of a hitherto neglected area of South Asian social history: the history of how people and goods circulated through the subcontinent and of the infrastructures that facilitated such movements. The second objective consists in an empirical reconstruction of major tendencies in the social history of transport in one Indian region: the transformation of Orissa’s circulatory regime from the final decades of the precolonial era until after World War I.

Description

A social history of circulatory practices, 'public works' policies and related social and economic changes in colonial India (with a case study on the region of Orissa).

Subjects

Topics

Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Orissa -- 19th centuryPublic works -- Social aspects -- India -- Orissa -- 19th centuryTransportation -- Social aspects -- India -- Orissa -- 19th century -- Sources

Genres

  • Sources

Series Statement

  • New perspectives in South Asian history -- 25

Other Editions

  • Pathways of empire: circulation, 'public works', and social space in colonial Orissa (c.1780-1914)Orient BlackSwan2009-01-01

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