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Engines of Change - The Railroads That Made India (Hardcover)
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Engines of Change - The Railroads That Made India (Hardcover)
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The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains,
by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world
scene. Without her extensive railway network—completed against
all odds by her British colonial masters—it is impossible to
imagine what might have become of the diverse lands and peoples of
the subcontinent. These railway networks brought them together as a
colony; these networks fostered the nationalism that would be
Britain's downfall. This rail network both remade the physical
landscape and brought social-cultural cohesion to a diverse and
wide-ranging populace. It would be common rail travel that Gandhi
would employ to reach the masses. From its romantic mystique to its
dangerous reality, it is rail travel today that keeps vital social,
cultural, economic and political forces moving. India's railroad
history serves as a unique lens to her larger story of triumph over
adversity. By 1905, India had the world's fourth largest railway
network—a position it retains in the early 21st century. The
railroads were at the organizational and technological center of
many of the inter-related economic, political, social, cultural,
and ecological transformations that produced modern India through,
and out of, its colonial past. In addition to this vast technical
achievement, and (in keeping with the series focus), there is an
equally important and wide-sweeping human-interest tale to be told
with evocative vignettes of the triumph of the human spirit (one
billion strong!) in the face of great adversity.
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