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Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency
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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. 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 are based on examining railway spaces as social spaces – a methodological index influenced by Henri Lefebvre’s idea of social spaces as means of control, domination and power.
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Keywords
- Bengali Travelogues
- British Empire
- British India
- Colonial administration
- Colonial Indian Society
- East Indian Railway
- East Indian Railway Company
- Eastern Bengal Railway
- Great Indian Peninsular Railway
- History since 1800
- Indian history
- Indian Passengers
- Indian Railway
- Indian Railway Company
- Lower Class Passengers
- Modern History
- Muslim Passengers
- Passenger Demands
- Railway Authorities
- Railway Operations
- Railway Spaces
- Railway Time
- Railways in India
- Refreshment Arrangements
- The Raj
- thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTM Regional / International studies
- thema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNG Transport industries
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history
- thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
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DOI: 10.4324/9781315397108Editions