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Author : Sir William Patrick Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : India
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004919531
Author : William Patrick Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1104771616
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : William P. Andrew
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 033165640X
Excerpt from Indian Railways as Connected With British Empire in the East Delhi Railway, that from Lahore to Ghasiabad, a length of 335 miles. This is fed by metalled roads only at the stations of Amritsar, J ullun dur, Ludhiana, Rajpura, Umballa, Saharanpur, Muzaffarnagar, and Meerut, z'.e. At intervals of 32, 49, 35, 53, 13, 55, 36, 35, and 27 miles; while the other stations, thirty-six in number, are practicably unapproachable by cart traflic for three months in the year, and during the remaining nine months only at a heavy cost in carts and bullocks, which have to make their way over the village tracks which do duty for roads. To anyone who sees the actual state of the case, the wonder is that a large portion of the traffic ever gets to the line at all. I have shown, indeed, in more than one of my Inspection Reports, from cases that have actually come under my notice, that the cost of cartage to the line, even in fair weather, is from ten to forty times the cost of carriage over the same length on the railway; though even this is a mild statement of the case, for such is the state of the cross-country roads that, in the rainy season, they are practicably impassable by carts, and traffic is more or less suspended all over the country. Let it be borne in mind that the above line passes through a richly cultivated and populous country for the whole of its length, and is very much better provided with roads than other line. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : William Patrick Andrew
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1296910369
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1846
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:70942044
Author : Daniel Thorner
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-04-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781512819038
The subject of this work is the process by which steamship and railway lines for India were launched. These undertakings, particularly the railways, involved a large-scale investment of British capital in India. The terms under which this capital moved, and, more precisely, the struggle to secure these terms, form the heart of this study.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1786495279
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the plans for British Empire expansion knew no bounds and landscapes around the world were forever changed by colonial infrastructure. In 1842 not a single mile of railway line existed in India: by 1929 41,000 miles of track served the country. Yet this was not intended to modernise India for the sake of its people but was a means for those in power to govern the huge country under their control. Despite the dubious intentions for the construction of the network, the Indian people quickly took to the railways, expanding their horizons and making migration to the cities of India easier than ever before. The Indian Railways network remains one of the largest in the world, serving over 25 million passengers each day. By building the railways in India, Britain radically changed the nation but also unwittingly created the preconditions of independence. While the railways greatly benefitted India and were the nation's first modern development, their construction ultimately contributed to a stirring of nationalist opinion. In this expertly told history, Christian Wolmar traces the evolution of India's rail network, revealing how it was largely subverted for British economic and military purposes. He also examines the chequered role of the railways in Indian history and the part they played in the creation of today's modern state.
Author : Colin Alexander,Alon Siton
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-02-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781445690278
Fascinating previously unpublished images of railways around the world built by British companies with British locomotives, rolling stock and other infrastructure.
Author : John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004231153
India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.
Author : sir William Patrick Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590022274
Author : Pallavi V. Das
Publisher : Springer
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137494580
This study explores the confluence of economy and ecology in British India, showing that Britain initiated economic development strategies in India in order to efficiently extract resources from it. It looks specifically at how state railway construction and forest conservation efforts took on a cyclical, almost symbiotic relationship.
Author : Guillemette Crouzet
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780228015000
The “Middle East” has long been an indispensable and ubiquitous term in discussing world affairs, yet its history remains curiously underexplored. Few question the origin of the term or the boundaries of the region, commonly understood to have emerged in the twentieth century after World War I. Guillemette Crouzet offers a new account in Inventing the Middle East. The book traces the idea of the Middle East to a century-long British imperial zenith in the Indian subcontinent and its violent overspill into the Persian Gulf and its hinterlands. Encroachment into the Gulf region began under the expansionist East India Company. It was catalyzed by Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt and heightened by gunboat attacks conducted in the name of pacifying Arab “pirates.” Throughout the 1800s the British secured this crucial geopolitical arena, transforming it into both a crossroads of land and sea and a borderland guarding British India’s western flank. Establishing this informal imperial system involved a triangle of actors in London, the subcontinent, and the Gulf region itself. By the nineteenth century’s end, amid renewed waves of inter-imperial competition, this nexus of British interests and narratives in the Gulf region would occasion the appearance of a new name: the Middle East. Charting the spatial, political, and cultural emergence of the Middle East, Inventing the Middle East reveals the deep roots of the twentieth century’s geographic upheavals.
Author : Annie Tindley,Andrew Wodehouse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137597984
This book is an innovative, interdisciplinary study of the nature of design as a form of communication within and across Britain and its empire in the long nineteenth century. In this period, Britain had developed from the world’s first industrial nation into the ‘Workshop of the World’ but how were technological innovations translated and communicated across the imperial territories? How were designs turned into reality? This book explores these themes, incorporating archival case study technologies such as trains, sugar manufacture and agricultural technologies. Using a four-part framework we firstly examine the identification of innovation opportunities and how these translated to engineering specifications. The realization of conceptual designs through collaboration and their subsequent manufacture and distribution as finished products are then reviewed. Using the authors’ expertise in the fields of historical and design engineering, this study contributes real-world case studies to design theory.
Author : Matthew D. Esposito
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351211741
This 4-volume collection is the first compilation of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from their inception in Great Britain to the Great Depression. Gathered together are over 200 rare out-of-print published and unpublished materials from archival and digital repositories throughout the world. Organized by historical geography, the second volume spans the British Empire.
Author : British Museum. Department of Printed Books
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : English literature
ISBN : UCAL:C2643742