Investment in Empire

British Railway and Steam Shipping Enterprise in India, 1825-1849

• Author(s): Daniel Thorner,
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Pages: 216
• ISBN_10: 1512819034
  ISBN_13: 9781512819038
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Europe / Great Britain / General , History / Asia / South / General ,

Description:... The subject of this work is the process by which steamship and railway lines for India were launched. These undertakings, particularly the railways, involved a large-scale investment of British capital in India. The terms under which this capital moved, and, more precisely, the struggle to secure these terms, form the heart of this study.