International Journal of Research in Social Sciences
Year : 2018, Volume : 8, Issue : 9
First page : ( 502) Last page : ( 523)
Online ISSN : 2249–2496.

Road Transportation Technology in Colonial Madras City, 1895–1947

Chitra B.¹, Atheeque P.P. Muhammed²

¹Department of History, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620024, TamilNadu, India

²Department of Sociology, Bharathidasan University, Tiruchirappalli-620024, TamilNadu, India

Online published on 5 August, 2019.

Abstract

Colonialism was the representative of the modern trade development in the west relocated in the east. In the process of establishing trade administrative centers most of the colonial powers entered into India have constructed on the coastal area. In the east coast, Madras city development from combination of three villages made into a chief colonial administrative town was example of the colonial trade and development port cities. Connecting this city with the other through the road transport became important. The colonial government had introduced and developed road transport projects with grand purpose in Madras city during 1895–1947. Building transport networks was a colonial requirement in the growing administrative colonial towns like Madras. The colonial governments transport policy was mainly to extract the maximum revenue.1With the vision of applying transportation technology to the country's developmental needs, India had started its transportation technology in East India Company. It argues that the colonial Government had introduced and development of these project with grand purpose. Building transport networks in growing administrative colonial towns like Madras were

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Keywords

Transportation Technology Road Colonial Madras.

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