Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency: A Social History of Railways in Colonial India, 1850-1920
- Submitting institution
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The University of Kent
- Unit of assessment
- 28 - History
- Output identifier
- 17146
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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10.4324/9781315397108
- Publisher
- Routledge
- ISBN
- 9781315397092
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- May
- Year of publication
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This is a research monograph and a “longer-form output”. It includes 254 pages. Research was undertaken over about three years (2014-2017). It makes extensive use of unexplored travelogues written in Bengali and Hindi by Indian railway travellers and preserved at the British Library. The use of Indian languages resources is a unique aspect of the book. The book interrogates the role of railways in initiating social change and technology transfer in mid-19th and early 20th century India, and it adds the perspective of Indian railway travellers.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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