The Making of India: The Untold Story of British EnterpriseThe first ever history of India to explore the benefits – institutional, political and civil – of British Colonial Rule on the subcontinent. 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
Ambitions to Rule the Waves | 54 |
Chapter 3 Routes to India | 70 |
The Age of Steam | 78 |
Chapter 5 Ports Harbours and Lighthouses | 108 |
Chapter 6 Canals and Water Supplies | 116 |
Leaving No Stone Unturned | 143 |
Chapter 8 Mail Services the Telegraph and the Telephone | 153 |
Chapter 15 India Adopts the Tram | 303 |
Chapter 16 The Textile and Jute Industries | 324 |
Chapter 17 Sugar Tea and Coffee Industries | 340 |
Chapter 18 Early Air Services | 351 |
Chapter 19 Establishing an Administrative Infrastructure | 355 |
Engineering and Medical Colleges | 370 |
Conservation Restoration and Appreciation | 377 |
Migration and Opportunity | 387 |
A Network is Built with Incredible Speed | 160 |
Chapter 10 Locomotive Workshops and the Manufacture of Rolling Stock | 223 |
Chapter 11 Bridge Building | 234 |
the Rise of Indian SelfSufficiency | 254 |
Chapter 13 Extraction Industry Development | 270 |
Chapter 14 Electricity Generation | 285 |
Milestones in the Making of India | 399 |
Biographies British Engineers in India | 405 |
| 414 | |
Acknowledgements | 425 |
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