| Description |
xxiv, 226 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
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Tracking modernity -- The permanent way: colonial discourse of the railway -- The machine of empire: technology and decolonization -- Partition and the death train -- New destinations: the image of the postcolonial railway -- Bollywood on the train -- Terrorism and the railway |
| Summary |
From Mohandas Gandhi's nineteenth-century tour in a third-class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, the railway has been one of India's most potent emblems of modern life. In the first in-depth analysis of representations of the Indian railway, Marian Aguiar interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology. Since the colonial period in India, the railway has been idealized as a rational utopiaùa moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. Aguiar char |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-215) and index |
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Includes filmography (pages 217-218) |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Mass media -- Social aspects -- India.
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Modernism (Aesthetics) -- India.
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Partition, Territorial, in literature.
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Popular culture -- Social aspects -- India.
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Postcolonialism -- India.
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Railroads in literature.
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Railroads -- India.
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| LC no. |
2010030715 |
| ISBN |
0816665605 (hbk. : acid-free paper) |
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0816665613 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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9780816665600 (hbk. : acidfree paper) |
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9780816665600 (hbk.) |
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9780816665617 (paperback: acidfree paper) |
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9780816665617 (paperback) |
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