The making of India : the untold story of British enterprise / Kartar Lalvani.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lalvani, Kartar, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Infrastructure (Economics)--India--History--18th century.

Infrastructure (Economics).

Social conditions.

Intellectual life.

History.

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

India--Civilization--British influences.

Civilization.

India--Intellectual life--18th century.

India--Social conditions--18th century.

Civilization--British influences.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 433 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Untold story of British enterprise

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Continuum, 2016.

Summary:

The story of this book begins in the seventeenth century, when a small sea-faring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain s remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world s largest democracy in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Argument: Balance and Perspective

2. The East India Company: Ambitions to Rule the Waves

3. Routes to India

4. Ships and Shipbuilding: The Age of Steam

5. Ports, Harbours and Lighthouses

6. Canals and Water Supplies

7. Roads: Leaving No Stone Unturned

8. Mail Services, the Telegraph and the Telephone

9. Railways: A Network is Built with Incredible Speed

10. Locomotive Workshops and the Manufacture of Rolling Stock

11. Bridge Building

12. Foundries, Iron and Steel: The Rise of Indian Self-Sufficiency

13. Extraction Industry Development

14. Electricity Generation

15. India Adopts the Tram

16. The Textile and Jute Industries

17. Sugar, Tea and Coffee Industries

18. Early Air Services

19. Establishing an Administrative Infrastructure

20. Education and Health: Engineering and Medical Colleges

21. Indian Heritage and Culture: Conservation, Restoration and Appreciation

22. Diaspora: Migration and Opportunity.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 414-424) and index.

ISBN:

9781472924827

1472924827

OCLC:

942849497