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Author : Ramswarup Deotadin Tiwari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015035067167
Author : Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : New Delhi : Oxford University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : MINN:31951D02187560J
The Selections In This Volume Represent Some Of The Best And Most Thought Provoking Writings About Indian Railways. These Include Writings By Karl Marx And Mahatma Gandhi As Well As Later Twentieth Century Scholars Which Range In Date Of Publication And Context, Covering One-Half Of India`S Railway Past.
Author : Bibek Debroy,Sanjay Chadha,Vidya Krishnamurthi
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780143439721
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 : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Atlantic Books
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-02
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9781782397663
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 : John Hurd II,Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004231153
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 : Ritika Prasad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316033616
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 : Marian Aguiar
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780816665600
The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.
Author : Ian J. Kerr
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105122848968
The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains, by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world scene. Without her extensive railway network—completed against all odds by her British colonial masters—it is impossible to imagine what might have become of the diverse lands and peoples of the subcontinent. These railway networks brought them together as a colony; these networks fostered the nationalism that would be Britain's downfall. This rail network both remade the physical landscape and brought social-cultural cohesion to a diverse and wide-ranging populace. It would be common rail travel that Gandhi would employ to reach the masses. From its romantic mystique to its dangerous reality, it is rail travel today that keeps vital social, cultural, economic and political forces moving. India's railroad history serves as a unique lens to her larger story of triumph over adversity. By 1905, India had the world's fourth largest railway network—a position it retains in the early 21st century. The railroads were at the organizational and technological center of many of the inter-related economic, political, social, cultural, and ecological transformations that produced modern India through, and out of, its colonial past. In addition to this vast technical achievement, and (in keeping with the series focus), there is an equally important and wide-sweeping human-interest tale to be told with evocative vignettes of the triumph of the human spirit (one billion strong!) in the face of great adversity.
Author : Ramswarup D. Tiwari
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 137620780X
Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788184754605
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 : Laura Bear
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0231140029
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 : Kalka Prasad Bhatnagar
Publisher : Kanpur : Kishore Publishing House
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Transportation
ISBN : UOM:39015023104501
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Railroads
ISBN : 1786495279
During the second half of the nineteenth century, the plans for British Empire expansion knew no bounds and landscapes around the world were forever changed by colonial infrastructure. In 1842 not a single mile of railway line existed in India: by 1929 41,000 miles of track served the country. Yet this was not intended to modernise India for the sake of its people but was a means for those in power to govern the huge country under their control. Despite the dubious intentions for the construction of the network, the Indian people quickly took to the railways, expanding their horizons and making migration to the cities of India easier than ever before. The Indian Railways network remains one of the largest in the world, serving over 25 million passengers each day. By building the railways in India, Britain radically changed the nation but also unwittingly created the preconditions of independence. While the railways greatly benefitted India and were the nation's first modern development, their construction ultimately contributed to a stirring of nationalist opinion. In this expertly told history, Christian Wolmar traces the evolution of India's rail network, revealing how it was largely subverted for British economic and military purposes. He also examines the chequered role of the railways in Indian history and the part they played in the creation of today's modern state.
Author : Monisha Rajesh
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781473644519
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 : sir William Patrick Andrew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1848
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590022274