Lines of the nation : Indian Railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Bear, Laura (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Colección:Cultures of history.
Temas:
Indian Railways > Management > Historiography.
Indian Railways > Officials and employees > Social conditions.
Indian Railways > Officials and employees > Economic conditions.
Eastern Railway (India) > Archives.
Eastern Railway (India)
Indian Railways
Geschichte
Railroads and state > India > Historiography.
Transports ferroviaires > Politique gouvernementale > Inde > Historiographie.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Knowledge Capital.
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Employees > Economic conditions
Employees > Social conditions
Eisenbahn
India
Indien
Archives
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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