| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 315 pages) |
| Summary |
"Discusses how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure became increasingly and inextricably woven with everyday life in colonial South Asia, how people negotiated this increasing presence of railways in their lives, and how the ensuing processes has materially shaped South Asia's present"--$c Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-306) and index. |
| Contents |
The nature of the beast? : an elementary logic for third-class travel -- Experiencing the third-class -- Demand and supply? : railway space and social taxonomy -- Crime and punishment : in the shadow of railway embankments -- Railway time : speed, synchronization, and "time-sense" -- Contagion and control : managing disease, epidemics, and mobility -- Designing rule : power, efficiency, and anxiety -- Marking citizen from denizen : dissent, "rogues," and rupture. |
| Local Note |
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| Subject |
Railroads -- Social aspects -- India -- History.
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Railroad travel -- Social aspects -- India -- History.
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Social change -- India -- History.
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India -- Social life and customs.
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India -- Social conditions.
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India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
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TRANSPORTATION -- Railroads -- Pictorial. |
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Manners and customs |
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Railroads -- Social aspects |
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Social change |
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Social conditions |
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India |
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British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947) |
| Chronological Term |
1765-1947 |
| Genre/Form |
History
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Prasad, Ritika, 1975- Tracks of change 9781107084216 (DLC) 2014044740 (OCoLC)896359262 |
| ISBN |
9781316053577 (electronic bk.) |
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1316053571 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316032176 (electronic bk.) |
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1316032175 (electronic bk.) |
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9781316030257 |
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1316030253 |
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9781316031698 |
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1316031691 |
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9781107084216 |
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1107084210 |
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