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Financing India's imperial railways, 1875-1914
- Title
- Financing India's imperial railways, 1875-1914 / by Stuart Sweeney.
- Author
- Sweeney, Stuart, 1963-
- Publication
- London ; Brookfield, Vt. : Pickering & Chatto, 2011.
- ©2011
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- Description
- 260 p. : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Sitting at the heart of the Raj's project to 'improve' India, the construction of railways began as a 'liberal' experiment in 1853: to promote trade and commerce, to distribute food, and to facilitate the movement of troops. This study focuses in on what was the largest investment project of the British Empire and debunks prevailing ideas.
- Series Statement
- Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 14
- Uniform Title
- Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 14.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.
- Contents
- 'Productive' Indian railways, 1875-1914 : space for gentlemanly capitalists and industrialists in a mixed economy -- Indian railways and famines, 1875-1914 : magic wheels and empty stomachs -- Military railways in India, 1875-1914 : Russophobia, technology and the Indian taxpayer -- Indian railroading : floating railway companies in the late nineteenth century -- Northern wars and southern diplomacy : Sir Douglas Forsyth's second career on the Indian railways -- Eminent ICS Victorians : Richard Strachey and Theodore Hope as poachers and gamekeepers -- Background, proceedings and legacy of the Mackay committee of 1908 : gentlemanly capitalists, Indian nationalists and laissez-faire.
- ISBN
- 9781848930476
- 184893047X
- 9781848930483
- 1848930488
- OCLC
- ocn639862391
- 639862391
- SCSB-1616965
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library