This is a research handbook addressing the past, present, and future of the railways of India. The goal of authors Hurd (emeritus, economics, Norwich U., US) and Kerr (history, U. of Manitoba, Canada)
The book draws on manuscript and archival sources, primary source newspapers and books, and primary source Parliamentary papers to examine the financial history of the Indian railway network created b
This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-19th to the early decades of the twentieth century.The book represents a his
The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains by any measure a major economic and political actor on the world scene. Kerr recounts the importance of this extensive railway networ