The Making of India
Bloomsbury Continuum (Verlag)
978-1-4729-2482-7 (ISBN)
The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring 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.
Dr Kartar Lalvani OBE, FRPharmS, DSc, is founder and chairman of Vitabiotics, Britain’s leading vitamin company. Born in Karachi in 1931, Kartar moved to Mumbai in 1947 and to London in 1956 to study pharmacy, before undertaking his doctorate at Bonn University. An honorary Professor at University of Franche Comté, Besançon, France, Kartar is also a philanthropist, private scholar and historian.
Foreword by Professor Ram Jethmalani, MP
Preface: Time to recognise the positive side of the imperial coin
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
Appendix A: Milestones in the Making of India
Appendix B: Biographies: British Engineers in India
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.3.2016 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Integrated photographs throughout |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 854 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4729-2482-7 / 1472924827 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4729-2482-7 / 9781472924827 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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