Roads and Road Transport in India: An Environmental and Economic History. This project aims to investigate how roadbuilding and transportation has spurred economic progress and driven environmental ch

Description

Roads and Road Transport in India: An Environmental and Economic History. This project aims to investigate how roadbuilding and transportation has spurred economic progress and driven environmental change in India. Focused on the 1940s-70s, it aims to conduct three site studies of important roads. The project expects to generate new knowledge on infrastructure creation and its consequences via road ethnography, archival research, and quantitative and qualitative analysis of published sources. Expected outcomes include a new economic-environmental postcolonial history of India and global research collaboration to study Asian infrastructure’s history. The anticipated benefit is to expand Australia’s understanding of tradeoffs been economic development and environmental change of a major trading partner and ally. . Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award. Field: 4303 - Historical Studies. Lead: Dr Aditya Balasubramanian