{"id":4169,"date":"2011-08-14T19:00:50","date_gmt":"2011-08-14T19:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/?p=4169"},"modified":"2011-08-14T19:00:50","modified_gmt":"2011-08-14T19:00:50","slug":"new-book-on-financing-indias-imperial-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/new-book-on-financing-indias-imperial-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"New book on Financing India&#8217;s Imperial Railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A book to be published in September 2011 looks potentially very interesting: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickeringchatto.com\/monographs\/financing_india_s_imperial_railways_1875_1914\">Financing India&#8217;s Imperial Railways, 1875\u20131914<\/a>, by Stuart Sweeney. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><q>The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney&#8217;s study focuses on Britain&#8217;s largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.<\/q>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Chapter 3 is entitled &#8220;Military Railways in India, 1875\u20131914: Russophobia, Technology and the Indian Taxpayer&#8221;. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pickeringchatto.com\/content\/download\/3432\/65666\/file\/Index%20from%20Financing%20India's%20Imperial%20Railways.pdf\">book&#8217;s index<\/a> is available at publisher Pickering &#038; Chatto&#8217;s website, and there are a number of mentions of Afghanistan, the Kandahar Railway and related matters. <\/p>\n<p>By the looks of it, this will be a serious academic study. Unfortunately, and probably not unrelated to this, it will also be sixty quid&#8230;  <\/p>\n<p><small>(other forthcoming books from the publisher include &#8220;The Unpublished Letters of Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke&#8221;. Will the very existence of such a book trigger some kind of publishing grandfather paradox?)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A book to be published in September 2011 looks potentially very interesting: Financing India&#8217;s Imperial Railways, 1875\u20131914, by Stuart Sweeney. The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney&#8217;s study focuses on Britain&#8217;s largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[27,83],"class_list":["post-4169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistans-railways","category-history","tag-book","tag-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.andrewgrantham.co.uk\/afghanistan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}