Abstract
This paper presents comparative studies of modern transportation systems in the Bengal Delta and British Borneo. To meet the demands of the new modes of resource extraction, the British colonial rulers introduced a new transportation system in both regions and built roads, railways, and navigational routes connecting major commercial and political centers. There has been little research into the historical connections between modern transportation and environmental changes in colonial South Asia and Malaysia. When modern transportation was introduced, environmental consequences were rarely considered. As a result, significant ecological changes and declines were unintentionally caused. The environmental changes brought about by these transportation systems in these two regions were not the same one from the other. For example, railroad construction harmed the plains and waterways in the Bengal Delta, whereas, in British Borneo, rubber plantations for the global market harmed the rainforests.
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Citation
Rashid, M.M. (2022), "Development of Modern Transport System in the Bengal Delta and British Borneo: A Comparative Environmental Perspective, 1850-1963", Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Vol. 22 No. 1, pp. 61-78. https://doi.org/10.1108/SEAMJ-01-2022-B1005
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