Ebook: India's Railway History: a Research Handbook

This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India's railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.;List of Tables; List of Illustrations and Maps; Acknowledgements; Preface; List of Abbreviations; 1. Context: A Brief Survey of India's Railway History, circa 1830-circa 2010; 1.1 Promotion and the Initial Decisions to Build Railways, circa 1830-circa 1853; 1.2 The Pioneering Decades, Construction and Operation, 1850-1871; 1.3 Routinization, Institutionalization, Ramification and Expansion, circa 1871-1905; 1.4 The Railways, Nationalisms, and the Economy: Political and Economic Upheavals, 1905-1947