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UNINA9910460081003321 |
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Autore |
Aguiar Marian |
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Titolo |
Tracking modernity [[electronic resource] ] : India's railway and the culture of mobility / / Marian Aguiar |
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Minneapolis [Minn.], : University of Minnesota Press, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4529-4642-6 |
0-8166-7670-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (252 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Indic literature (English) - 20th century - History and criticism |
Railroads - India |
Modernism (Aesthetics) - India |
Railroads in literature |
Postcolonialism - India |
Popular culture - Social aspects - India |
Mass media - Social aspects - India |
Partition, Territorial, in literature |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Tracking modernity -- The permanent way: colonial discourse of the railway -- The machine of empire: technology and decolonization -- Partition and the death train -- New destinations: the image of the postcolonial railway -- Bollywood on the train -- Terrorism and the railway. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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From Mohandas Gandhi's nineteenth-century tour in a third-class compartment to the recent cinematic shenanigans of Wes Anderson's The Darjeeling Limited, the railway has been one of India's most potent emblems of modern life. In the first in-depth analysis of representations of the Indian railway, Marian Aguiar interprets modernity through the legacy of this transformative technology.Since the colonial period in India, the railway has been idealized as a rational utopiaùa moving box in which racial and class differences might be |
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