Our Indian Railway: themes in India's Railway history

This book commemorates 150 years of railways in India. Introduced under colonial rule in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railways soon embraced the length and breadth of India bringing with it rapid political, economic, ecological and cultural changes. The articles in this book explor...

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Weitere beteiligte Personen: Srinivasan, Roopa (HerausgeberIn), Tiwari, Manish (HerausgeberIn), Silas, Sandeep 1960- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: New Delhi Foundation Books 2006
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Zusammenfassung:This book commemorates 150 years of railways in India. Introduced under colonial rule in the second half of the nineteenth century, the railways soon embraced the length and breadth of India bringing with it rapid political, economic, ecological and cultural changes. The articles in this book explore the impact of this technological phenomenon from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives. From early railway thinking in renaissance Bengal, to railway policing in Uttar Pradesh and issues of management to railway themes in literature, the writers in this volume reveal the world of the railways in all its exciting facets. The photo essay invokes the nostalgic world of steam with a series of evocative images. In the twenty-first century, the ever expanding horizon of the railways continues to draw in people and goods in the third largest railway network in the world
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Umfang:1 online resource (xxxiv, 253 pages)
ISBN:9788175968264