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Tracks of Change - Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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Tracks of Change - Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India (Hardcover)
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From the mid-nineteenth century onwards, railways became
increasingly important in the lives of a growing number of Indians.
While allowing millions to collectively experience the endemic
discomforts of third-class travel, the public opportunities for
proximity and contact created by railways simultaneously compelled
colonial society to confront questions about exclusion, difference,
and community. It was not only passengers, however, who were
affected by the transformations that railways wrought. Even without
boarding a train, one could see railway tracks and embankments
reshaping familiar landscapes, realise that train schedules
represented new temporal structures, fear that spreading railway
links increased the reach of contagion, and participate in new
forms of popular politics focused around railway spaces. Tracks of
Change explores how railway technology, travel, and infrastructure
became increasingly woven into everyday life in colonial India, how
people negotiated with the growing presence of railways, and how
this process has shaped India's history.
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