Our Indian Railway - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Our Indian Railway write by Roopa Srinivasan. This book was released on 2006. Our Indian Railway available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Lines of the Nation
Lines of the Nation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lines of the Nation write by Laura Bear. This book was released on 2007. Lines of the Nation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Indian Railways
Indian Railways - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Indian Railways write by Bibek Debroy. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Indian Railways available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES write by Ruskin Bond. This book was released on 2000-10-14. THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Tracking Modernity
Tracking Modernity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracking Modernity write by Marian Aguiar. This book was released on 2011. Tracking Modernity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.
