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dc.contributor.editorCederlöf, Gunnel
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-24T14:06:08Z
dc.date.available2022-10-24T14:06:08Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/59033
dc.description.abstractThe volume introduces a new analysis of interconnected labour and economic history of colonial India and Scandinavia. From a recently found archive of a railway contractor’s private and business papers, the studies revise both Indian labour history and Scandinavian modern history, and ties south Sweden into the British Empire. With deep insights into everyday work practices of Indian and European contractors and manual labourers, the book establishes a bridge across the globe, between two poor regions as sites of extraction and industrial transformation, resulting from global migration and capital flows. Drawing on rich archival sources such as the Joseph Stephens Archive, Maharashtra State Archives, the National Archives of India, and the British Library, the book offers deep insights into everyday business practices of European contractors in India, which were rarely documented and have remained largely inaccessible so far. A unique look into the labour and entrepreneurship practices under British colonial rule in India, as well as its impact on the most transformative years of modern southern Scandinavia, the book will be of great interest to students, academics, and teachers of history, labour studies, subaltern studies, colonialism, imperialism, economic history, railways, economics, and Scandinavian and South Asian studies.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KC Economics::KCZ Economic historyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studies::KNG Transport industriesen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::K Economics, Finance, Business and Management::KN Industry and industrial studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherAsian history;Colonialism and imperialism;Economic history;Transport industries;Industry and industrial studiesen_US
dc.titleThe Imperial Underbellyen_US
dc.title.alternativeWorkers, Contractors, and Entrepreneurs in Colonial India and Scandinaviaen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781003317227en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781000804966en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032320922en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781032328928en_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages239en_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Linnaeus University


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