27 Down New Departures in Indian Railway Studies (With CD)

Book Specification Item Code: NAH011 Author: Ian J. Kerr Publisher: Orient Longman Pvt. Ltd. Language: English Edition: 2007 ISBN: 9788125030638 Pages: 447 (With 2 Map) Cover: Hardcover Other Details 9.0 inch X 6.0 inch Weight 660 gm Book Description About The Book Hitherto, the study of India’s railways has run along a few, increasingly well-travelled tracks. The central goal of 27 Down with its nine, new, railway –related studies-and much else thanks to its enclosed CD-ROM-is to explore some of the neglected dimensions of India’s colonial and postcolonial railways. The contributors, a stimulating mix of younger and older scholar, explore vastly different aspects of India’s railways, past and present. Railways and the nineteenth-century capitalist development of South Asia, porters at a twenty-first-century Mumbai station, late nineteenth-century Hindi accounts of train travel, post 1947 films and writings that represent railways during the Partition of India, r