| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 346 pages) |
| Series |
Cultures of history |
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Cultures of history.
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| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I -- Chapter One. The Indian Railways and the Management of the Material and Moral Progress of Nations, 1849-1860 -- Chapter Two. An Indian Traveling Public, 1850-1900 -- Chapter Three. Governing the Railway Family, 1860-1900 -- Chapter Four. Industrial Unrest and the Cultivation of Railway Communities, 1897-1931 -- Chapter Five. An Economy of Suffering -- Chapter Six. Public Genealogies -- Part II -- Chapter Seven. Uncertain Origins and the Strategies of Love -- Chapter Eight. Traces of the Archive -- Chapter Nine. Railway Morality -- Chapter Ten. Ruins and Ghosts -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
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 institution |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Indian Railways -- Management -- Historiography
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Indian Railways -- Officials and employees -- Social conditions
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Indian Railways -- Officials and employees -- Economic conditions
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Eastern Railway (India) -- Archives
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| SUBJECT |
Eastern Railway (India) fast |
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Indian Railways fast |
| Subject |
Railroads and state -- India -- Historiography
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Knowledge Capital.
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HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
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Employees -- Economic conditions
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Employees -- Social conditions
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Eisenbahn
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India
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Indien
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| Genre/Form |
Archives
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006036065 |
| ISBN |
9780231511513 |
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0231511515 |
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