Download or read book INDIAS DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS written by Angus McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Great Indian Railways written by Arup K. Chatterjee and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor

Download or read book India s Railway History written by John Hurd II and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-08-03 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Administration Report on the Railways in India written by India. Railway Board and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1879/1880 includes information on state railways from their beginning.

Download or read book History of the East Indian Railway written by George Huddleston and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Indian Railways written by Bibek Debroy and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2017-02-10 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book THE PENGUIN BOOK OF INDIAN RAILWAY STORIES written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2000-10-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Our Indian Railways Their Present Condition and Future Prospects written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Our Indian Railway written by Roopa Srinivasan and published by Foundation Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book The Indian and Eastern Engineer written by and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Illustrated Guide to the South Indian Railway written by South Indian Railway Co., Ltd and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Readings in Indian Railway Finance written by K. B. Verma and published by Academic Foundation. This book was released on 1998 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributed articles.

Download or read book Indian Geography MindMap Quick Revision for IAS PCS CDS NDA CTET Railway etc Govt Exam written by Nitin Arora & Team and published by Arora IAS . This book was released on with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Its complete Summary on Indian Geography Mindmap for Quick Revision. This book you can revise within 24 hours , helpful for last time revision.

Download or read book THE INDIAN LISTENER written by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi and published by All India Radio (AIR),New Delhi. This book was released on 1949-11-27 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 December, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in July 16 of 1927. From 22 August ,1937 onwards, it was published by All India Radio,New Delhi.From July 3 ,1949,it was turned into a weekly journal. Later,The Indian listener became "Akashvani" in January 5, 1958. It was made a fortnightly again on July 1,1983. It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes,who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists. It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. NAME OF THE JOURNAL: The Indian Listener LANGUAGE OF THE JOURNAL: English DATE,MONTH & YEAR OF PUBLICATION: 27-11-1949 PERIODICITY OF THE JOURNAL: Weekly NUMBER OF PAGES: 68 VOLUME NUMBER: Vol. XIV, No. 34 BROADCAST PROGRAMME SCHEDULE PUBLISHED(PAGE NOS): 19-30, 32-43, 45-56, 58-64 ARTICLE: 1. Listening Conditions In December 2. What Life Meant To Me 3. Education Through Art 4. The Beau 5. Cereals 6. The Railways 7. Integration Of States 8. Avoidable accidents in storage 9. The All-Rounder In Sports AUTHOR: 1. R. B. L. Srivastava 2. Acharya Narendra Deva 3. G. Venkatachalam 4. Mr. Justice S.K. Das 5. Dr M.V. Radhakrishna Rao 6. N. C. Ghosh 7. B. L. Miller 8. P.V.A. Raman 9.C. Ramaswami KEYWORDS: 1. Transmission wavelengths of All India Radio, National Home Service, Services for Overseas Listeners 2. Moral life, Artistic life, Individualism and humanity 3. Analysis and psychology of art education, Art in Indian life 4. Art and creativity, Literature and creativity 5. Balanced diet, Staple food in Asia 6. Railway construction in India, Famine Commission and railway construction 7. Formation of Sourashtra, Formation of Madhya Bharat, Formation of Vindhya Pradesh 8. Careless handling of inflammable substances, Careless storage of inflammable substance 9. Specialization in sports, All rounder in cricket Document ID: INL-1949 (N-D) Vol-III (04)

Download or read book Abstract of Evidence Recorded by the Railway Police Committee 1921 written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Around India in 80 Trains written by Monisha Rajesh and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2012-11-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Crackles and sparks with life like an exploding box of Diwali fireworks." -- William Dalrymple In 1991, Monisha Rajesh's family uprooted from Sheffield to Madras in the hope of making India their home. Two years later, fed up with soap-eating rats, severed human heads and the creepy colonel across the road, they returned to England with a bitter taste in their mouths. Two decades on, she turns to a map of the Indian Railways and takes a page out of Jules Verne's classic tale, embarking on an adventure around India in 80 trains, covering 40,000 km - the circumference of the Earth. She hopes that 80 train journeys up, down and across India will lift the veil on a country that has become a stranger to her. Along the way, Monisha discovers that the Indian Railways - featuring luxury trains, toy trains, Mumbai's infamous commuter trains, and even a hospital on wheels - have more than a few stories to tell, not to mention a colourful cast of characters. And with a self-confessed "militant devout atheist" in tow, her personal journey around a country built on religion isn't quite what she bargained for...