Tracking modernity India's railway and the culture of mobility / [electronic resource] :
Marian Aguiar.
- Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.
- xxiv, 226 p.
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.
Indic literature (English)--History and criticism.--20th century Railroads--India. Modernism (Aesthetics)--India. Railroads in literature. Postcolonialism--India. Popular culture--Social aspects--India. Mass media--Social aspects--India. Partition, Territorial, in literature.