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

Science and technology have shaped not only economic empires and industrial landscapes, but also the identities, anxieties, and understandings of people living

This book shows how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly and inextricably woven into everyday life in colonial South Asia.

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

The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an in