This is the first, wide-scale examination of this subject in modern times. It explains how great physical obstacles and human complexities -- for example massive rivers, epidemics of disease and the co-ordinated use of large labour gangs - tested alike the skills and fortitude of British supervisors and the Indian workers, whose labour built the railways and whose construction-related deaths numbered in tens of thousands.
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This is the first, wide-scale examination of this subject in modern times. It explains how great physical obstacles and human complexities -- for example massive rivers, epidemics of disease and the co-ordinated use of large labour gangs - tested alike the skills and fortitude of British supervisors and the Indian workers, whose labour built the railways and whose construction-related deaths numbered in tens of thousands.
Imprint | OUP India |
Country of origin | India |
Release date | May 1997 |
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Authors | Ian J. Kerr |
Dimensions | 216 x 138 x 5mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 274 |
Edition | New edition |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-564238-4 |
Barcode | 9780195642384 |
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LSN | 0-19-564238-4 |