Pathways of empire
Subtitle: circulation, 'public works', and social space in colonial Orissa (c.1780-1914)
By: Ravi Ahuja.
Series: New perspectives in South Asian history -- 25
Publisher: Orient BlackSwan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hyderabad
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9788125035275
Subjects: Transportation -- Social aspects -- India -- Orissa -- 19th century -- Sources; Public works -- Social aspects -- India -- Orissa -- 19th century; Infrastructure (Economics) -- India -- Orissa -- 19th century
Genres: Sources
First sentence: This study has two objectives. The first is to forge conceptual tools for the examination of a hitherto neglected area of South Asian social history: the history of how people and goods circulated through the subcontinent and of the infrastructures that facilitated such movements. The second objective consists in an empirical reconstruction of major tendencies in the social history of transport in one Indian region: the transformation of Orissa’s circulatory regime from the final decades of the precolonial era until after World War I.
Description: A social history of circulatory practices, 'public works' policies and related social and economic changes in colonial India (with a case study on the region of Orissa).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-350) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 1
class: chapter
label: 1; label: I
class: part
title: SPACE - CIRCULATION - INFRASTRUCTURE: CONCEPTUALISING THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF TRANSPORT IN COLONIAL INDIA; label: 2
pagenum: 19
class: part
title: Space - Society - History; title: Circulation and Infrastructure
pagenum: 66
class: part
label: 3; title: CIRCULATORY REGIMES AND 'PUBLIC WORKS': THE CASE OF COLONIAL ORISSA IN THE LONG NINETEENTH CENTURY
class: part
label: II; label: 4
pagenum: 119
class: part
title: Patterns of Circulation and Modes of Transport in Ancien Régime Orissa; label: 5
pagenum: 154
class: part
title: Who Needs a Road? Circulation, Society and the East India Company; title: Early Colonialism, 'Public Works' and the Orissa Famine
pagenum: 186
class: part
label: 6; title: Circulation and Infrastructure in the Times of Colonial Capitalism
pagenum: 224
class: part
label: 7; title: Kings, Commerce and Corvée in the Tributary States
pagenum: 270
class: part
label: 8; pagenum: 301
class: part
title: Conclusion