Imperial Military Transportation in British Asia sheds light on
attempts by royal engineers to introduce innovations devised in the
UK to wartime India, Iraq, and Burma, as well as the initial
resistance of local groups of colonial railwaymen to such
metropolitan innovations. Michael W. Charney looks at the role of
the railways in the First Burma Campaign to show how some kinds of
military technology - as an example of imperial knowledge - faced
resistance due to 1930s-era colonial insularity. The delay this
caused significantly compromised the early defense of the colony
when the Japanese invaded in 1942. Charney examines the efforts
made by one engineer in particular to revive the railways and shows
how this effort was responsible for the development of a truly
imperial technology that was suitable for extra-European contexts
and finally won acceptance in India. Incorporating newly accessible
primary source material from the files of the military Director of
Transportation during the Campaign, this book highlights a hitherto
unfilled gap in the archival record and explores an ignored but
crucial aspect of the 1942 Japanese invasion of Burma.
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