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Author:
Aguiar, Marian.
Title:
Tracking modernity : India's railway and the culture of mobility / Marian Aguiar.
Publisher:
University of Minnesota Press,
Copyright Date:
c2011
Description:
xxiv, 226 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Indic literature (English)--20th century--History and criticism.
Railroads--India.
Modernism (Aesthetics)--India.
Railroads in literature.
Postcolonialism--India.
Popular culture--India--Social aspects.
Mass media--India--Social aspects.
Partition, Territorial, in literature.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes filmography.
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.
ISBN:
0816665613 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
9780816665617 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
0816665605 (acid-free paper)
9780816665600 (acid-free paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)651153747
LCCN:
2010030715
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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