Lines of the Nation : : Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self / / Laura Bear.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2007] ©2007 |
| Year of Publication: | 2007 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cultures of History
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
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Table of 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