TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sinha, Nitin
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012//
TI  - Communication and colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s-1880s
PB  - Anthem Press
CY  - London
KW  - Communication and traffic
KW  - Colonies
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - India
KW  - Bihar
KW  - Communication and traffic ; India ; Bihar ; History
KW  - Communication and traffic ; Colonies ; Great Britain ; History
KW  - Great Britain ; Colonies ; Administration ; History ; 18th century
KW  - Great Britain ; Colonies ; Administration ; History ; 19th century
KW  - Administration
AB  - 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
SN  - 9780857289094
UR  - http://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9780857289094/type/BOOK
LA  - English
N1  - Nitin Sinha
ID  - 883291363
ER  -