Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s - Paperback
Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s - Paperback
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by Nitin Sinha (Author)
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.
Author Biography
Nitin Sinha is a research fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient (Centre for Modern Oriental Studies) in Berlin. His current work focuses on the socio-historical dimensions of the River Ganga in India. He has published on issues of transport and the 'Mutiny' of 1857, mobility and criminality, and railway labour movements in nineteenth- and twentieth-century colonial India.
