Financing India's Imperial Railways, 1875–1914
Stuart Sweeney
Perspectives in Economic and Social History
978 1 84893 047 6: 234x156mm: £60.00/$99.00
978 1 84893 048 3
The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.
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Readership
Empire Studies, Economic History, Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century History
Contents
Introduction
1 'Productive' Indian Railways, 1875–1914: Space for Gentlemanly Capitalists and Industrialists in a Mixed Economy
2 Indian Railways and Famines, 1875–1914: Magic Wheels and Empty Stomachs
3 Military Railways in India, 1875–1914: Russophobia, Technology and the Indian Taxpayer
4 Indian Railroading: Floating Railway Companies in the Late Nineteenth Century
5 Northern Wars and Southern Diplomacy: Sir Douglas Forsyth's Second Career on the Indian Railways
6 Eminent ICS Victorians: Richard Strachey and Theodore Hope as Poachers and Gamekeepers
7 Background, Proceedings and Legacy of the Mackay Committee of 1908: Gentlemanly Capitalists, Indian Nationalists and Laissez Faire
Conclusions
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