The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.

Our main discussion in this book Indian society, polity and culture of the colonial period. Indian society in the 19th century was caught in an inhuman web crea

A World History of Railway Cultures, 1830-1930 is the first collection of primary sources to historicize the cultural impact of railways on a global scale from

While literary modernism is often associated with Euro-American metropolises such as London, Paris or New York, this book considers the place of the colonial ci

As early as the 1910s, African drivers in colonial Ghana understood the possibilities that using imported motor transport could further the social and economic