Tracks of change : railways and everyday life in colonial India / Ritika Prasad.
Yer Numarası
A.IX/5702
ISBN
9781107084216 (Hardback)
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yazar
Basım Bildirimi
Reprinted.
Yayın Bilgisi
New Delhi, India : Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Fiziksel Niteleme
x, 315 sayfa : harita, grafik, tablo ; 24 cm
Genel Not
İndeks s. [307]-315.
Bibliyografi, vb. Notu
Bibliyografya s. [283]-306.
İçindekiler Notu
Introduction -- The nature of the beast?: an elementary logic for third-class travel -- Demand and supply?: railway space and social taxonomy -- Crime and punishment: in the shadow of railway embankments -- Railway time: speed, synchronization, and “time-sense“ -- Contagion and control: managing disease, epidemics, and mobility -- Designing rule: power, efficiency, and anxiety -- Marking citizen from denizen: dissent, ‘rogues,’ and rüptüre -- Conclusion.
Özet, vb.
“Discusses how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly and inextricably woven with everyday life in colonial South Asia, how people negotiated this increasing presence of railways in their lives, and how the ensuing processes has materially shaped South Asia's present“ -- Yayıncı.
