Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945431 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Aparajita Mukhopadhyay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Aparajita |
| FAMILY NAME | Mukhopadhyay |
| SIGNATURE | MUKHOPADHYAY A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kent, Canterbury, UK |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5851-7131 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Rethinking Technology Transfer in a Colonial Milieu
The article reappraises nature of technology transfer in a colonial context by underlining how the colonised mediated and shaped what was ostensibly an imposition by the imperial administration. This wider point is illustrated by demonstrating the ways in which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, different groups of Indians used newly introduced railways to reconceptualise meanings of travel by adding new categories of travel wh…
Transport users, and historie(s) of transport
This article proposes a methodological departure. It makes a case for foregrounding interactions between users and transport systems as a methodological departure to move beyond institutional perspectives in history of transport. This wider point is examined in this article through the illustrative example of how at an everyday level users negotiate/contest exclusionary practices and transport disadvantage. The article acknowledges the challenges…
Installing Automobility
Reviewed by: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities by Govind Gopakumar Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (bio) Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities By Govind Gopakumar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 312. Installing Automobility is a welcome addition to mobility studies, both in the context of India and beyond. In the case of India, it adds an interpretative la…
Iran in Motion
Iran in Motion is an important contribution to the history of railway construction and its wider socio-political impact in a non-colonial context. At a related level, the volume also adds to our understanding of the diverse impetus behind railway building in the twentieth century. Broadly speaking, the history of railway building and its wider influence is largely a nineteenth-century story. But by focusing on the twentieth century, this book sho…
Obituary
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850
Review in Technology and Culture: The International Quarterly for the Society for the History of Technology
Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency
This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and compl…
Colonised Gaze? Guidebooks and Journeying in Colonial India
This article analyses Bengali- and Hindi-language travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the authors of these texts were influenced by the literary and interpretative sensibilities of European guidebooks of the period, especially English-language railway guides to India, they did not uncritically adopt their colonial discourses. Rather, Indian authors created a distinct narrati…
Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency
This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and compl…
Colonised Gaze? Guidebooks and Journeying in Colonial India
This article analyses Bengali- and Hindi-language travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the authors of these texts were influenced by the literary and interpretative sensibilities of European guidebooks of the period, especially English-language railway guides to India, they did not uncritically adopt their colonial discourses. Rather, Indian authors created a distinct narrati…
Colonised Gaze? Guidebooks and Journeying in Colonial India
This article analyses Bengali- and Hindi-language travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While the authors of these texts were influenced by the literary and interpretative sensibilities of European guidebooks of the period, especially English-language railway guides to India, they did not uncritically adopt their colonial discourses. Rather, Indian authors created a distinct narrati…
Imperial Technology and 'Native' Agency
This book explores the impact of railways on colonial Indian society from the commencement of railway operations in the mid-nineteenth to the early decades of the twentieth century. The book represents a historiographical departure. Using new archival evidence as well as travelogues written by Indian railway travellers in Bengali and Hindi, this book suggests that the impact of railways on colonial Indian society were more heterogeneous and compl…
Obituary
The English East India Company's Silk Enterprise in Bengal, 1750-1850
Review in Technology and Culture: The International Quarterly for the Society for the History of Technology
Installing Automobility
Reviewed by: Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities by Govind Gopakumar Aparajita Mukhopadhyay (bio) Installing Automobility: Emerging Politics of Mobility and Streets in Indian Cities By Govind Gopakumar. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2020. Pp. 312. Installing Automobility is a welcome addition to mobility studies, both in the context of India and beyond. In the case of India, it adds an interpretative la…
Iran in Motion
Iran in Motion is an important contribution to the history of railway construction and its wider socio-political impact in a non-colonial context. At a related level, the volume also adds to our understanding of the diverse impetus behind railway building in the twentieth century. Broadly speaking, the history of railway building and its wider influence is largely a nineteenth-century story. But by focusing on the twentieth century, this book sho…
Rethinking Technology Transfer in a Colonial Milieu
The article reappraises nature of technology transfer in a colonial context by underlining how the colonised mediated and shaped what was ostensibly an imposition by the imperial administration. This wider point is illustrated by demonstrating the ways in which in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, different groups of Indians used newly introduced railways to reconceptualise meanings of travel by adding new categories of travel wh…
Transport users, and historie(s) of transport
This article proposes a methodological departure. It makes a case for foregrounding interactions between users and transport systems as a methodological departure to move beyond institutional perspectives in history of transport. This wider point is examined in this article through the illustrative example of how at an everyday level users negotiate/contest exclusionary practices and transport disadvantage. The article acknowledges the challenges…
Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Colonialism (4 works) · Context (archaeology) (4 works) · History (4 works) · Social science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · History of Science and Medicine (3 works)