2016/05/05 by RAGHAV KISHORE · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Engineering · #South Asian Studies and Conflicts #Vietnamese History and Culture Studies #Geographies of human-animal interactions #Colonialism #Traffic congestion #Politics #State (computer science) #Urban planning #New delhi #Urban space #Geography #Political science #Transport engineering #Business #Economy #Civil engineering #Environmental planning #Engineering #Archaeology #Computer science #Law #Economics
paper · doi:10.1017/s0963926816000353
openalex publication_date 2016/05/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
ABSTRACT: This article examines how the management of railway traffic was problematized in urban plans for colonial Delhi after the 1890s. It reveals how Delhi was reconstituted as a space of circulation in municipal plans attempting to combat railway-induced ‘traffic congestion’. Yet, even as new gardens, localities and footpaths were envisaged as enabling smooth flows of traffic and generating a commercially healthy city, policing anxieties and concerns over political security dominated in such plans. Finally, this article shows how the process of railway-inspired ‘urban planning’ was itself driven by a contestation between different ‘scales’ of the colonial state.