Sarah Hilaly
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Address: Department of History,Rajiv Gandhi University,Rono Hills, Doimukh (Arunachal Pradesh) 791112
Address: Department of History,Rajiv Gandhi University,Rono Hills, Doimukh (Arunachal Pradesh) 791112
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complex ways. Through transformed strategies of resource extraction in subtle ways it
replaced overt political control, facilitating spread of economic ideas, processes and
institutions. In Assam the first railways came in 1885 to exploit the tea plantations, coal
seams and the petroleum industry through a network of short distance railways and the
trunk railways. A demand on the forests for railways was made on a small scale during the
early period of their construction. It was in the early part of the twentieth century that the
increased demand for timber as well as sleepers in Goalpara district adjoining Bengal. The
Kachugaon Tramway was set up to exploit the forests, was linked with new land usage, and
altered demography in the setting up of forest villages of Santhals and Kols. The paper
seeks to explore the complex interplay of colonialism represented through railways.
complex ways. Through transformed strategies of resource extraction in subtle ways it
replaced overt political control, facilitating spread of economic ideas, processes and
institutions. In Assam the first railways came in 1885 to exploit the tea plantations, coal
seams and the petroleum industry through a network of short distance railways and the
trunk railways. A demand on the forests for railways was made on a small scale during the
early period of their construction. It was in the early part of the twentieth century that the
increased demand for timber as well as sleepers in Goalpara district adjoining Bengal. The
Kachugaon Tramway was set up to exploit the forests, was linked with new land usage, and
altered demography in the setting up of forest villages of Santhals and Kols. The paper
seeks to explore the complex interplay of colonialism represented through railways.