Aguiar, Marian.

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.
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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.


Electronic books.

PR9489.6 / .A37 2011eb

820.9/3558