Dewey, Clive.

Steamboats on the Indus: the limits of western technological superiority in South Asia/ Clive Dewey. - 1st ed. - New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2014. - xiii, 296 p. : ill. ; 29 cm.

Constraints
1. The Rivers; The 'Hazards of Navigation'
2. The Steamboats: The Technological Trap
3. The Money: Costs and Losses

Activities
4. Passengers
5. Cargoes
6. The Steamboats' Military Role

Competitors
7. The Indian Summer of the Country Boats
8. The Country Boats and the Country Boatmen
9. The Fate of the Ferries

Rationale
10. The Psychological Impact of the Steamboats
11. The Sting in the Tale

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River boats--History--South Asia
Steamboats--History--South Asia
River boats.
Steamboats.


India--History
India.
South Asia.

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