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.

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基础设施治理和社会历史：印度殖民时期和后殖民时期的道路

本文结合了史学概述和对未来可能主题的思考，认为道路不仅是物理路径，而且是当时社会，经济和政治言论的一部分。通过在过去和现在之间进行对话，在这里显示了基础设施与治理之间的关系以及撰写社会论文的可能性，从而将南亚的殖民时代和后殖民时代纳入一个分析领域。