Dak roads, dak runners, and the reordering of communication networks (notice n° 155396)
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| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | fre |
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| Personal name | Joshi, Chitra |
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| Title | Dak roads, dak runners, and the reordering of communication networks |
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| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018.<br/> |
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| General note | 43 |
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| Summary, etc. | With the expansion of its territory in India in the first half of the nineteenth century, the British East India Company increasingly felt the need to widen postal networks and speed up communications. This essay looks at the crucial role of the dauriya (mail runner) in the development of postal networks by exploring the narratives around popular images of this ‘‘traditional’’ communication worker. Accounts of the lives of mail runners were interwoven with stories of their extraordinary physical strength and the dangers they negotiated along the way, their encounters with tigers, and their commitment to carry the imperial mail through rain and flood. Behind such narratives lay a history of regulations, a story of the making of a ‘‘modern’’ postal system. This entailed an effort to rationalize the system, calculating the speed of running, ensuring regularity, projecting estimated times of travel, and enforcing contracts. This essay aims to understand the logic of these changes, and the implications of these regulations. |
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| Note | Revue d’histoire du XIXe siècle | o 56 | 1 | 2018-11-06 | p. 67-87 | 1265-1354 |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-du-dix-neuvieme-siecle-2018-1-page-67?lang=en">https://shs.cairn.info/journal-revue-d-histoire-du-dix-neuvieme-siecle-2018-1-page-67?lang=en</a> |
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