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27 down: new departures in Indian railway studies

Contributor(s): Publication details: Hyderabad Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd. 2007 Description: lxxii, 375 p. With CD at Acc. No. CD1316ISBN:
  • 9788125030638
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 385.0954
Summary: Presents eight multidisciplinary examples of recent research into India's railway system. The papers discuss the negotiation of text and territory in 19th century Hindi travel accounts, railway space in Partition literature, representations of the railways in films on the Partition, railways and capitalist development in India from 1850 to 1973, work and income strategies of the licensed porters of Mumbai, labor in the railway workshops, financing and managing the railways of colonial north India in 1859-1914, and the railway company perspective on the railway system and economic development from 1884 to 1939. The CD-ROM contains a presentation on trains in Bangladeshi rickshaw and popular commercial arts, a film on the last Indian steam train, selected South Asian railway statistics, a consolidated bibliography, some poems, and photographs and other visual materials.
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Presents eight multidisciplinary examples of recent research into India's railway system. The papers discuss the negotiation of text and territory in 19th century Hindi travel accounts, railway space in Partition literature, representations of the railways in films on the Partition, railways and capitalist development in India from 1850 to 1973, work and income strategies of the licensed porters of Mumbai, labor in the railway workshops, financing and managing the railways of colonial north India in 1859-1914, and the railway company perspective on the railway system and economic development from 1884 to 1939. The CD-ROM contains a presentation on trains in Bangladeshi rickshaw and popular commercial arts, a film on the last Indian steam train, selected South Asian railway statistics, a consolidated bibliography, some poems, and photographs and other visual materials.

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