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Communication and Colonialism in Eastern India : Bihar, 1760s-1880s

This momograph took eight years of research and writing. It covers all means of communication, which is something new as the standard accounts of the nineteenth-century south Asian transport usually limit their focus to railways. The methodology is new combining the cultural aspects of colonial travel with the micro-study of economic networks to understand colonial circulatory regimes. The study uses a range of published and unpublished sources in different languages: travelogues, maps, governmental records and folksongs. Of special value was the discovery of hitherto unused Public Works Department records in a record room of a local governmental office in India