Steamboats on the Indus: the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia
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2014
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XIII, 296 S. Ill., graph., Kt. 29 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents
List of Maps, Tables, and Figures viii
List of Plates x
Note on Conventions xv
Acknowledgements xvii
Introduction 1
Constraints
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1. The Rivers: The‘Hazards of Navigation’ 13
2. The Steamboats: The Technological Trap 30
3. The Money: Costs and Losses 49
Activities ^
4. Passengers 79
5. Cargoes 115
6. The Steamboats’Military Role , 125
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Competitors
7. The Indian Summer of the Country Boats 141
8. The Country Boats and the Country Boatmen 55 173
9. The Fate of the Ferries 195
Rationale
10. The Psychological Impact of the Steamboats 235
11. The Sting in the Tale 240
Appendix: The Statistics on the Country Boats 257
Glossary 262
Bibliography 265
Index 291
About the Author 297
Xwo 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.
The steamers were the most advanced
technology in South Asia. British investors
poured capital into them, colonial officials
subsidized them, and European travellers
patronized them.The country boats----blown
by the winds, rowed by the oars, dragged by
ropes---had hardly changed in a thousand
years.Yet these humble country boats not
only saw the steamers out but also survived
the coming of the railways. They were
far better adapted to the shallow, shifting
rivers; they were much cheaper to build and
operate; and they drew on an extraordinary
pool of skills-the skills of the boatmen and
boat builders.
Steamboats on the Indus shows that the
received wisdom----the ‘fools of Empire’
approach to the history of technology
and imperialism--is wrong to assume that
Western machines destroyed indigenous
techniques wherever they came into
competition.Traditional technology could
exploit the economic opportunities created
by imperialism at lower cost than the most
advanced machinery from the West.
So the country boats kept the river trade while
the steam flotillas went bankrupt.
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