Download or read book Lines of the Nation written by Laura Bear and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book SHORT HISTORY OF INDIAN RAILWAYS written by Rajendra B. Aklekar and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His stories instruct and entertain, bringing the past of Indian Railways alive in the present. Did you know that India's first steam engine never ran on tracks and was actually used to run driving mills in a factory? That the maximum speed of the first commercial train in India was 4.5 miles/hour?

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 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 Indian Railways written by Nanak Batukram Mehta and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Monograph on Indian Railway Rates written by Sarat Chandra Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Railway Laws of India written by Shubham Sinha and published by SHUBHAM. This book was released on 2016-07-19 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains all the Laws relating to Indian railways within territories of India. It can be used as a bare act set of the laws as well as detailed information material about commercial, personnel, or consumer laws relating to Indian railways. This book is for anyone dealing with Indian Railways as in the nature of passenger/ traveller, businessman, logistics, railway employees or railway officers, or anyone wanting to have proper knowledge about how Indian Railways works. This book not only contains Laws relating to railways but it also covers in depth of Indian laws from which Indian Railways is related. This feature really make this book important for anyone This 190 pages of information can keep you smart as well as safe while dealing with your day to day business with Indian Railways. The detailed bare act covered in this book are: THE RAILWAYS ACT, 1989 THE RAILWAY CLAIMS TRIBUNAL ACT, 1987 THE RAILWAY COMPANIES (EMERGENCY PROVISIONS) ACT, 1951 THE RAILWAY PROPERTY (UNLAWFUL POSSESSION) ACT, 1966 THE RAILWAY PROTECTION FORCE ACT, 1957 THE RAILWAYS (EMPLOYMENT OF MEMBERS OF ARMED FORCES) ACT, 1965 THE TERMINAL TAX ON RAILWAY PASSENGERS ACT, 1956 THE CALCUTTA METRO RAILWAY (OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE) TEMPORARY PROVISIONS ACT, 1985 THE CHAPARUMUKH-SILGHAT RAILWAY LINE AND THE KATAKHAL LALA BAZAR RAILWAY LINE (NATIONALISATION) ACT, 1982 THE METRO RAILWAYS (CONSTRUCTION OF WORKS) ACT, 1978 THE INDIAN RAILWAY COMPANIES ACT, 1895 THE INDIAN TRAMWAYS ACT, 1902 THE INDIAN RAILWAY BOARD ACT, 1905 THE RAILWAYS (LOCAL AUTHORITIES' TAXATION) ACT, 1941 THE RAILWAY COMPANIES (SUBSTITUTION OF PARTIES IN CIVIL PROCEEDINGS)ACT, 1946 THE COTTON TRANSPORT ACT, 1923 Once again I thank you all for purchasing this book and would like to recommend you to read my other books on "Indian law" series published on Amazon and Google. Thank you!! your legal wellwisher Shubham Sinha

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...

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 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.

Download or read book Indian Railways c Senior Editor Rupa Rao written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Indian Railways written by Chandrika Prasada Tiwari (Rai Saheb.) and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Lectures on Indian Railway Economics written by S. C. Ghose and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tracking Modernity written by Marian Aguiar and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquitous railway as a symbol of the tensions of Indian modernity.

Download or read book Administration Report on the Railways in India written by India. Railway Board and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 548 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 Financing India s Imperial Railways 1875 1914 written by Stuart Sweeney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian railway network began as a liberal experiment to promote trade and commerce, the distribution of food and military mobility. Sweeney's study focuses on Britain's largest overseas investment project during the nineteenth century, offering a new perspective on the Anglo-Indian experience.

Download or read book Indian Railways written by K. V. Iyer and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bankruptcy to Billions written by Sudhir Kumar and published by Oxford India Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Railways is one of the world's largest state-owned enterprises with around 1.4 million employees, over 63,000 kilometres of network, running around 13,000 trains each day. Bankruptcy to Billions reveals for the first time how the Indian Railways transformed from near bankruptcy to post US$ 6 billion (Rs 25,000 crore) annual cash surplus in 2008. This book is a case study of how the Indian Railways brought a revolutionary change in its infrastructure to script its own success story. Defining and evaluating the conventional policy approach to reform large state-owned enterprises, this book comprehensively analyses Railways' innovative modus operandi that changed its status from a "profit averse" to a "profit oriented" organization. Providing valuable insights into other state-owned enterprises, Bankruptcy to Billions unveils the real story of the transformation of the Indian Railways.