Our Indian Railways

Author : Bibek Debroy,Sanjay Chadha,Vidya Krishnamurthi
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780143439721

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Indian Railways by Bibek Debroy,Sanjay Chadha,Vidya Krishnamurthi Pdf

The fascinating story of the network that made modern India The railways brought modernity to India. Its vast network connected the far corners of the subcontinent, making travel, communication and commerce simpler than ever before. Even more importantly, the railways played a large part in the making of the nation: by connecting historically and geographically disparate regions and people, it forever changed the way Indians lived and thought, and eventually made a national identity possible. This engagingly written, anecdotally told history captures the immense power of a business behemoth as well as the romance of train travel; tracing the growth of the railways from the 1830s (when the first plans were made) to Independence, Bibek Debroy and his co-authors recount how the railway network was built in India and how it grew to become a lifeline that still weaves the nation together. This latest volume in The Story of Indian Business series will delight anyone interested in finding out more about the Indian Railways.

Author : Roopa Srinivasan,Manish Tiwari,Sandeep Silas
Publisher : Foundation Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 8175963301

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Our Indian Railway by Roopa Srinivasan,Manish Tiwari,Sandeep Silas Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015020925296

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Our Indian Railways. Their Present Condition and Future Prospects by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arup K. Chatterjee
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-25
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9789388414234

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The Great Indian Railways by Arup K. Chatterjee Pdf

Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor

Author : Laura Bear
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231140029

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Lines of the Nation by Laura Bear Pdf

Lines of the Nation radically recasts the history of the Indian railways, which have long been regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, Laura Bear explores the new public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. She then traces their influence on the formation of contemporary Indian nationalism, personal sentiments, and popular memory. Her probing study challenges entrenched beliefs concerning the institutions of modernity and capitalism by showing that these rework older idioms of social distinction and are legitimized by forms of intimate, affective politics. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research in the company town at Kharagpur and at the Eastern Railway headquarters in Kolkata (Calcutta), Bear focuses on how political and domestic practices among workers became entangled with the moralities and archival technologies of the railway bureaucracy and illuminates the impact of this history today. The bureaucracy has played a pivotal role in the creation of idioms of family history, kinship, and ethics, and its special categorization of Anglo-Indian workers still resonates. Anglo-Indians were formed as a separate railway caste by Raj-era racial employment and housing policies, and other railway workers continue to see them as remnants of the colonial past and as a polluting influence. The experiences of Anglo-Indians, who are at the core of the ethnography, reveal the consequences of attempts to make political communities legitimate in family lines and sentiments. Their situation also compels us to rethink the importance of documentary practices and nationalism to all family histories and senses of relatedness. This interdisciplinary anthropological history throws new light not only on the imperial and national past of South Asia but also on the moral life of present technologies and economic institutions.

Author : Ritika Prasad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316033616

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Tracks of Change by Ritika Prasad Pdf

From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians. While allowing millions to collectively experience the endemic discomforts of third-class travel, the public opportunities for proximity and contact created by railways simultaneously compelled colonial society to confront questions about exclusion, difference, and community. It was not only passengers, however, who were affected by the transformations that railways wrought. Even without boarding a train, one could see railway tracks and embankments reshaping familiar landscapes, realise that train schedules represented new temporal structures, fear that spreading railway links increased the reach of contagion, and participate in new forms of popular politics focused around railway spaces. Tracks of Change explores how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly woven into everyday life in colonial India, how people negotiated with the growing presence of railways, and how this process has shaped India's history.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9388372069

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Indian Railways /c Senior Editor, Rupa Rao by Anonim Pdf

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184754605

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Penguin Book Of Indian Railway Stories by Ruskin Bond Pdf

The stories in this collection capture the essence of the Indian Railways - from the small-town station, at the time of the Raj, to the present day big-city station bursting at the seams. The teening and varied life of the Indian Railway station and its environs have fascinated writers from Jules Verne in the 1870s to more recently Satyajit Ray, R.K. Laxman and more modern writers. In this anthology, one of India's best-known writers makes a selection of greattest railway stories the subcontinent has produced. Julese Verne Rudyard Kipling Flora Annie Steel Hon. J.W. Best Jim Corbett Khushwant Singh Ruskin Bond Manoj Das Intizar Husain Satyajit Ray Bill Aitkin R.K. Laxman Victor Banerjee Manojit Mitra.

Author : Sudhir Kumar,Shagun Mehrotra
Publisher : Oxford India Paperbacks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0198069073

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Bankruptcy to Billions by Sudhir Kumar,Shagun Mehrotra Pdf

The Indian Railways is one of the world's largest state-owned enterprises with around 1.4 million employees, over 63,000 kilometres of network, running around 13,000 trains each day. Bankruptcy to Billions reveals for the first time how the Indian Railways transformed from near bankruptcy to post US$ 6 billion (Rs 25,000 crore) annual cash surplus in 2008. This book is a case study of how the Indian Railways brought a revolutionary change in its infrastructure to script its own success story. Defining and evaluating the conventional policy approach to reform large state-owned enterprises, this book comprehensively analyses Railways' innovative modus operandi that changed its status from a "profit averse" to a "profit oriented" organization. Providing valuable insights into other state-owned enterprises, Bankruptcy to Billions unveils the real story of the transformation of the Indian Railways.

Author : John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9789004230033

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India's Railway History by John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr Pdf

This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.

Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781782397663

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Railways and The Raj by Christian Wolmar Pdf

The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian. 'Christian Wolmar is Britain's foremost railway historian.' The Times 'Our leading writer on the railways' Guardian 'Christian Wolmar is in love with railways... He is their wisest, most detailed historian' Observer India joined the railway age late: the first line was not completed until 1853 but, by 1929, 41,000 miles of track served the country. However, the creation of this vast network was not intended to modernize India for the sake of its people but rather was a means for the colonial power to govern the huge country under its control, serving its British economic and military interests. Despite the dubious intentions behind the construction of the network, the Indian people quickly took to the railways, as the trains allowed them to travel easily for the first time. The Indian Railways network remains one of the largest in the world, serving over 25 million passengers each day. In this expertly told history, Christian Wolmar reveals the full story of India's railways, from its very beginnings to the present day, and examines the chequered role they have played in Indian history and the creation of today's modern state.

Author : Alan Gledhill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Law
ISBN : OCLC:1120811422

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The Republic of India by Alan Gledhill Pdf

Author : Monisha Rajesh
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473644519

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Around India in 80 Trains by Monisha Rajesh Pdf

Taking a page from Jules Verne's classic tale, Monisha Rajesh embarked on an adventure around India in eighty trains. Indian trains carry over twenty million passengers daily, plowing through cities, crawling past villages, climbing up mountains, and skimming along coasts. Monisha hopes that her journeys across India will lift the veil on a country that had become a stranger to her.

Author : John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004231153

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India's Railway History by John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr Pdf

India has had operating railways for well-over 150 years: railways that have played a central and well-documented role in the making of India in the colonial and post-colonial eras. This handbook provides a reference guide for researchers interested in almost any facet of the history, colonial and post-colonial, of these railways. The secondary literature is identified and surveyed, primary sources and their locations identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed and presented, and a massive bibliography made available. This handbook is the indispensable tool for anyone seeking to understand India's railways and the roles they played in the making of modern India.

Author : Erika T. Wurth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015074053383

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Indian Trains by Erika T. Wurth Pdf

These poems are tributes to an entirely new tribe--the unsung mixed blood Indians of modern America.