This volume offers a detailed analysis of colonial policies in respect to communication in India - via roads, ferries, steamships and railways - and reveals how communication became an integral part of colonial governance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Abbreviations; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Chapter 1. From Affective Forms to Objectification: Spatial Transition from Pre-colonial to Colonial Times; Chapter 2. India and its Interiors; Chapter 3. Going into the Interiors; Chapter 4. Knowing the Ways; Chapter 5. Controlling the Routes; Chapter 6. Changing Regime of Communication, 1820s-60s; Chapter 7. Of Men and Commodities; Chapter 8. The Wheels of Change; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
