Lines of the nation
Laura Bear
Lines of the nation : Indian Railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self /Laura Bear - New York : Columbia University Press , ©2007. - xii, 346 pages ; 24 cm. - Cultures of history. .
Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 1. The Indian Railways and the Management of the Material and Moral Progress of Nations, 1849-1860 2. An Indian Traveling Public, 1850-1900 3. Governing the Railway Family, 1860-1900 4. Industrial Unrest and the Cultivation of Railway Communities, 1897-1931 5. An Economy of Suffering: The Ethics of Popular Nationalism in Petitions from Railway Workers, 1930-1947 6. Public Genealogies: Anglo-Indian Family Histories and the Railway Archive, 1927-1950 Part 2 7. Uncertain Origins and the Strategies of Love: Portraits of Anglo-Indian Railway Families 8. Traces of the Archive: Documents, Bodies, and Nations in Anglo-Indian Family Histories 9. Railway Morality: Status and Authority in the Postcolonial Railway Bureaucracy 10. Ruins and Ghosts: The Uncanny and the Topography of the Colonial Past in the Railway Colony Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Provides the history of the Indian railways. from the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, this book explores the public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. It traces their influence on the formation of Indian nationalism.
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Lines of the nation : Indian Railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self /Laura Bear - New York : Columbia University Press , ©2007. - xii, 346 pages ; 24 cm. - Cultures of history. .
Acknowledgments Introduction Part 1 1. The Indian Railways and the Management of the Material and Moral Progress of Nations, 1849-1860 2. An Indian Traveling Public, 1850-1900 3. Governing the Railway Family, 1860-1900 4. Industrial Unrest and the Cultivation of Railway Communities, 1897-1931 5. An Economy of Suffering: The Ethics of Popular Nationalism in Petitions from Railway Workers, 1930-1947 6. Public Genealogies: Anglo-Indian Family Histories and the Railway Archive, 1927-1950 Part 2 7. Uncertain Origins and the Strategies of Love: Portraits of Anglo-Indian Railway Families 8. Traces of the Archive: Documents, Bodies, and Nations in Anglo-Indian Family Histories 9. Railway Morality: Status and Authority in the Postcolonial Railway Bureaucracy 10. Ruins and Ghosts: The Uncanny and the Topography of the Colonial Past in the Railway Colony Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
Provides the history of the Indian railways. from the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, employment hierarchies, and the construction of employee housing, this book explores the public spaces and social relationships created by the railway bureaucracy. It traces their influence on the formation of Indian nationalism.
9780231140027
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road,DaryaGanj,New Delhi-110002
Social Sciences
Employees--Economic conditions--Employees--Social conditions
331.7613850954 BEA
