Book ID: CBB668271322

Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India: Bihar, 1760s–1880s (2014)

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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.

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Authors & Contributors
Mario Coglitore
Brian Phillips Murphy
Haines, Daniel
Trinder, Barrie Stuart
Paulett, Robert
Kerr, Ian J.
Concepts
Colonialism
Technology and politics
Technology and economics
Travel; exploration
Technology
Great Britain, colonies
Time Periods
19th century
18th century
20th century
17th century
20th century, early
16th century
Places
India
Great Britain
Europe
Middle and Near East
Calcutta (India)
England
Institutions
Botanic Garden (Calcutta, India)
British East India Company
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