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The problem of traffic : the street-life of modernity in late-colonial India
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Arnold, David (2012) The problem of traffic : the street-life of modernity in late-colonial India. Modern Asian Studies, Vol.46 (No.1). pp. 119-141. doi:10.1017/S0026749X1100059X ISSN 0026-749X.
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Abstract
In India in the early twentieth century the modern socio-technological phenomenon of traffic brought together many visible and accessible forms of everyday technology. However, in India modern motorized transport had to operate alongside earlier, seemingly ‘pre-modern’, modes of street-life. The emergence of traffic helped foster the expansion of late-colonial policing and the growth of the ‘everyday state’. It stimulated a new sense of a middle class identity and the proper ordering and disciplining of those who used the modern highway. But the technology of traffic was also contested—by those who evaded traffic rules as well as by those who were critical of technological modernity or the rising human cost of traffic accidents. The street at times became a site of open opposition to state authority or, through the deliberate disruption of traffic, a significant location for the exercise of political defiance and control.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > History | ||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Communication and traffic -- India -- History -- 20th century, India -- Social conditions -- 20th century | ||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Modern Asian Studies | ||||
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||
| ISSN: | 0026-749X | ||||
| Official Date: | January 2012 | ||||
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| Volume: | Vol.46 | ||||
| Number: | No.1 | ||||
| Page Range: | pp. 119-141 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.1017/S0026749X1100059X | ||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 19 December 2015 |
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