Steamboats on the Indus: the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia/ Clive Dewey.
Material type: TextPublication details: New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014Edition: 1st edDescription: xiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN: 9780198092193; 0198092199Subject(s): River boats -- South Asia -- History | Steamboats -- South Asia -- History | River boats | Steamboats | India -- History | India | South AsiaDDC classification: 954.03
Contents:
Constraints
1. The Rivers; The 'Hazards of Navigation'
2. The Steamboats: The Technological Trap
3. The Money: Costs and Losses
Activities
4. Passengers
5. Cargoes
6. The Steamboats' Military Role
Competitors
7. The Indian Summer of the Country Boats
8. The Country Boats and the Country Boatmen
9. The Fate of the Ferries
Rationale
10. The Psychological Impact of the Steamboats
11. The Sting in the Tale
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 954.03 DEW/S (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P41277 |
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954.03 CHA/S The small voice of history: collected essays/ | 954.03 CLA/T The last thousand days of the British empire/ | 954.03 DAS/L Literature of resistance: India, 1857/ | 954.03 DEW/S Steamboats on the Indus: the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia/ | 954.03 DOO/T Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / | 954.03 DOS/T Trans-colonial modernities in South Asia / | 954.03 GAN/H Hind swaraj and other writings / |
Constraints
1. The Rivers; The 'Hazards of Navigation'
2. The Steamboats: The Technological Trap
3. The Money: Costs and Losses
Activities
4. Passengers
5. Cargoes
6. The Steamboats' Military Role
Competitors
7. The Indian Summer of the Country Boats
8. The Country Boats and the Country Boatmen
9. The Fate of the Ferries
Rationale
10. The Psychological Impact of the Steamboats
11. The Sting in the Tale
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