Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-245) and index.
Contents:
Productive Indian railways, 1875-1914 : space for gentlemanly capitalists and industrialists in a mixed economy -- Indian railways and famines, 1875-1914 : magic wheels and empty stomachs -- Military railways in India, 1875-1914 : Russophobia, technology and the Indian taxpayer -- Indian railroading : floating railway companies in the late nineteenth century -- Northern wars and southern diplomacy : Sir Douglas Forsyth's second career on the Indian railways -- Eminent ICS Victorians : Richard Strachey and Theodore Hope as poachers and gamekeepers -- Background, proceedings and legacy of the Mackay committee of 1908 : gentlemanly capitalists, Indian nationalists and laissez-faire.
Series:
Perspectives in economic and social history ; no. 14
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