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University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn.
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Oxford University Press, Oxford
The railway has been one of India's most potent emblems of modern life. In an analysis of representations of the Indian railway, this book interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology. Since the colonial period in India,...
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The railway has been one of India's most potent emblems of modern life. In an analysis of representations of the Indian railway, this book interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology. Since the colonial period in India, the railway has been idealised as a rational utopia - a moving box in which racial and class differences might be amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. The book charts this powerful image into the postcolonial period, showing how the culture of mobility exposes this symbol of reason as surprisingly dynamic and productive.
