Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Colonial Context of the Bengal Renaissance: A Note on Early Railway–Thinking in Bengal
- 2 Minute by Dalhousie on Introduction of Railways in India, as Submitted to the Court of Directors, 4 July 1850
- 3 Ackworth Committee Report
- 4 Competition and Adaptation: The Operation of Railways in Northern India: Uttar Pradesh 1860–1914
- 5 Economic Nationalism and the Railway Debate, circa 1880-1905
- 6 Railway Policing and Security in Colonial India, c. 1860–1930
- 7 Indian Nationalism and Railways
- 8 The Railway in Colonial India: Between Ideas and Impacts
- 9 The Dark Side of the Force: Mistakes, Mismanagement and the Malfeasance in Early Railways of the British Indian Empire
- 10 Tunnels and Bridges: Railways, Narrative and Power in two Novels of India
- 11 A View of the History of Indian Railways
- 12 The Romance of Steam
- Index
- Plate section
1 - The Colonial Context of the Bengal Renaissance: A Note on Early Railway–Thinking in Bengal
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 October 2011
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The Colonial Context of the Bengal Renaissance: A Note on Early Railway–Thinking in Bengal
- 2 Minute by Dalhousie on Introduction of Railways in India, as Submitted to the Court of Directors, 4 July 1850
- 3 Ackworth Committee Report
- 4 Competition and Adaptation: The Operation of Railways in Northern India: Uttar Pradesh 1860–1914
- 5 Economic Nationalism and the Railway Debate, circa 1880-1905
- 6 Railway Policing and Security in Colonial India, c. 1860–1930
- 7 Indian Nationalism and Railways
- 8 The Railway in Colonial India: Between Ideas and Impacts
- 9 The Dark Side of the Force: Mistakes, Mismanagement and the Malfeasance in Early Railways of the British Indian Empire
- 10 Tunnels and Bridges: Railways, Narrative and Power in two Novels of India
- 11 A View of the History of Indian Railways
- 12 The Romance of Steam
- Index
- Plate section
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- Our Indian RailwayThemes in India's Railway History, pp. 1 - 22Publisher: Foundation BooksPrint publication year: 2006
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