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Tracking modernity [electronic resource] : India's railway and the culture of mobility / Marian Aguiar.

By: Aguiar, Marian.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, c2011Description: xxiv, 226 p.Subject(s): Indic literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Railroads -- India | Modernism (Aesthetics) -- India | Railroads in literature | Postcolonialism -- India | Popular culture -- Social aspects -- India | Mass media -- Social aspects -- India | Partition, Territorial, in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 820.9/3558 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.