Steamboats on the Indus the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia

Two forms of water-transport competed for supremacy on the Indus and its tributaries in the middle of the nineteenth century: the local country boats and the steamboats imported by the British. Steamboats on the Indus shows that the received wisdom-the 'Technology and Imperialism' school-i...

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Main Author: Dewey, Clive (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New Delhi, India Oxford University Press 2014
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