This project seeks to historicise the institution of the GIP Railway and its effects on forests of the Deccan region. It will foreground a new and productive theoretical combination of the categories of space, time and nature, using the GIP Railway as a terrain upon which to investigate the manner in which the introduction of railway technology altered the domain of space-time and the domain of nature in colonial India. The project will argue that the theoretical integration of these categories would allow for the creative nuancing of some aspects of the history of colonial India that are variously unresearched or under-researched until now. Very importantly, this research intends to rescue the history of railways in India from the throes of economism and to then place it within the orbit of a truly engaging and dynamic interdisciplinarity.

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