Infrastructural governance and social history: roads in colonial and postcolonial India

This essay combines historiographical overview and reflections on possible future themes to argue that roads are not just physical pathways but are part of social, economic, and political discourses of the time. The relationship between infrastructure and governance and the possibility of writing the social have been shown here by creating a dialogue between the past and present, thus bringing colonial and postcolonial times of South Asia into one analytical field.