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Engines of change : the railroads that made India

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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.

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Praeger Publishers Inc
0275985644 / 9780275985646
Hardback
30/12/2006
United States
English
256 p. : ill.
24 cm
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