Empire Building: The Construction of British India 1690-1860

by Rosie Llewellyn-Jones

Empire Building is a new account of the East India Company's impact on India, focusing on how it changed the sub-continent's built environment in the context of defense, urbanization, and infrastructural development.

Rosie Llewellyn-Jones examines these initiatives through a lens of 'political building' (using Indian contractors and laborers). Railways, docks, municipal buildings, freemasons' lodges, hotels, race-courses, barracks, cemeteries,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787388042
• ISBN13: 9781787388048
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Hurst & Co.
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.5"