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SHORT HISTORY OF INDIAN RAILWAYS

2019-05-24 Fiction
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Release : 2019-05-24
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Book Synopsis SHORT HISTORY OF INDIAN RAILWAYS by : Rajendra B. Aklekar

Download or read book SHORT HISTORY OF INDIAN RAILWAYS written by Rajendra B. Aklekar. This book was released on 2019-05-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His stories instruct and entertain, bringing the past of Indian Railways alive in the present. Did you know that India's first steam engine never ran on tracks and was actually used to run driving mills in a factory? That the maximum speed of the first commercial train in India was 4.5 miles/hour?

Indian Railways

2017-02-10 Literary Collections
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Release : 2017-02-10
Genre : Literary Collections
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Book Synopsis Indian Railways by : Bibek Debroy

Download or read book Indian Railways written by Bibek Debroy. This book was released on 2017-02-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fascinating story of the network that made modern India The railways brought modernity to India. Its vast network connected the far corners of the subcontinent, making travel, communication and commerce simpler than ever before. Even more importantly, the railways played a large part in the making of the nation: by connecting historically and geographically disparate regions and people, it forever changed the way Indians lived and thought, and eventually made a national identity possible. This engagingly written, anecdotally told history captures the immense power of a business behemoth as well as the romance of train travel; tracing the growth of the railways from the 1830s (when the first plans were made) to Independence, Bibek Debroy and his co-authors recount how the railway network was built in India and how it grew to become a lifeline that still weaves the nation together. This latest volume in The Story of Indian Business series will delight anyone interested in finding out more about the Indian Railways.

History of the East Indian Railway

1906 Railroads
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Release : 1906
Genre : Railroads
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Book Synopsis History of the East Indian Railway by : George Huddleston

Download or read book History of the East Indian Railway written by George Huddleston. This book was released on 1906. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

India's Railway History

2012-08-03 Transportation
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Release : 2012-08-03
Genre : Transportation
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Book Synopsis India's Railway History by : John Hurd II

Download or read book India's Railway History written by John Hurd II. This book was released on 2012-08-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook provides an indispensable reference guide to most aspects of the history of India’s railways. The secondary literature is surveyed, primary sources identified, statistical and cartographic data discussed, and a massive bibliography made available.

The Great Indian Railways

2019-01-25 Transportation
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Release : 2019-01-25
Genre : Transportation
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Book Synopsis The Great Indian Railways by : Arup K. Chatterjee

Download or read book The Great Indian Railways written by Arup K. Chatterjee. This book was released on 2019-01-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following an experimental railway track at Chintadripet, in 1835, the battle for India's first railroad was fought bitterly between John Chapman's Great Indian Peninsular Railway and Rowland MacDonald Stephenson's East India Railway Company, which was merged with Dwarkanauth Tagore's Great Western of Bengal Railway. Even at the height of the Mutiny of 1857, Bahadur Shah Zafar promised Indian owned railway tracks for native merchants if Badshahi rule was restored in Delhi. From Jules Verne to Rudyard Kipling to Mark Twain to Rabindranath Tagore to Nirad C. Chaudhuri to R.K. Narayan and Ruskin Bond-the aura of Indian trains and railway stations have enchanted many writers and poets. With iconic cinematography from The Apu Trilogy, Aradhana, Sonar Kella, Sholay, Gandhi, Dil Se, Parineeta, Barfi, Gangs of Wasseypur, and numerous others, Indian cinema has paved the way for mythical railroads in the national psyche. The Great Indian Railways takes us on a historic adventure through many junctions of India's hidden railway legends, for the first time in a book replete with anecdotes from imperial politics, European and Indian accounts, the battlefronts of the Indian nationalist movement, Indian cinema, songs, advertisements, and much more, in an ever-expanding cultural biography of the Great Indian Railways. Dubbed as 'one of a kind' this awe-inspiring saga is 'compulsive reading.' 'In this fascinating cultural history, Arup K Chatterjee charts the extraordinary journey of the Indian Railways, from the laying of the very first sleeper to the first post-Independence bogey. It evokes our collective accumulation of those innumerable memories of platform chai and rail-gaadi stories, bringing alive through myriad voices and tales the biography of one of India's defining public institutions.' – Shashi Tharoor, Author, M.P., Lok Sabha 'The Great Indian Railways is a fascinating and well-researched cultural biography of the Indian Railways-those intricate arteries of the soul of India, as have been experienced, written, filmed, and dreamed. We cannot all travel by rail to know India, as Gandhiji did, but we can and should read this book!' – Tabish Khair, Author, Professor

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