Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s by Nitin Sinh

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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.

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Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, 'Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India' reveals the shifting and contradictory nature of the colonial state's policies and discourses on communication. The volume explores the changing relationship between trade, transport and mobility in India, as evident in the trading and mercantile networks operating at various scales of the economy. Of crucial importance to this study are the ways in which knowledge about roads and routes was collected through practices of travel, tours, surveys, and map-making, all of which benefited the state in its attempts to structure a regime that would regulate 'undesirable' forms of mobility.

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.

Table of Contents

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

Review

'[This is] a book which is not only nuanced and convention challenging, but also successful in simultaneously navigating several strands of historical investigation. There is something in here for the historian of transport, as there is for the historian of cartography, the economic historian and the historian of print culture. [It is] likely to become important reading for scholars of colonial South Asia.' -Amelia Bonea, 'H-Soz-Kult'

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A detailed analysis of the way communication became an integral part of colonial governance in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India.

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Through a regional focus on Bihar between the 1760s and 1880s, 'Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India' reveals the shifting and contradictory nature of the colonial state's policies and discourses on communication. The volume explores the changing relationship between trade, transport and mobility in India, as evident in the trading and mercantile networks operating at various scales of the economy. Of crucial importance to this study are the ways in which knowledge about roads and routes was collected through practices of travel, tours, surveys, and map-making, all of which benefited the state in its attempts to structure a regime that would regulate 'undesirable' forms of mobility.

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'[This is] a book which is not only nuanced and convention challenging, but also successful in simultaneously navigating several strands of historical investigation. There is something in here for the historian of transport, as there is for the historian of cartography, the economic historian and the historian of print culture. [It is] likely to become important reading for scholars of colonial South Asia.' -Amelia Bonea, 'H-Soz-Kult'

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A detailed analysis of the way communication became an integral part of colonial governance in late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century India.

Details ISBN0857284487 Author Nitin Sinha Publisher Anthem Press Language English ISBN-10 0857284487 ISBN-13 9780857284488 Media Book Format Hardcover Short Title COMMUNICATION & COLONIALISM IN Year 2012 Publication Date 2012-09-01 Imprint Anthem Press Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom UK Release Date 2012-09-01 NZ Release Date 2012-09-01 Pages 310 Subtitle Bihar, 1760s–1880s Alternative 9780857289094 DEWEY 954.12303 Illustrations 30+ plates and tables Audience Professional & Vocational AU Release Date 2012-09-03 Series Anthem South Asian Normative Traditions Studies We've got this

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