03201nam 2200733 a 450 991078986970332120230126204724.01-4529-4642-60-8166-7670-4(CKB)2670000000078061(EBL)678653(OCoLC)712015728(SSID)ssj0000473904(PQKBManifestationID)11286602(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000473904(PQKBWorkID)10449510(PQKB)11070894(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177330(MiAaPQ)EBC678653(MdBmJHUP)muse29880(Au-PeEL)EBL678653(CaPaEBR)ebr10461007(CaONFJC)MIL526015(EXLCZ)99267000000007806120100726d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTracking modernity[electronic resource] India's railway and the culture of mobility /Marian AguiarMinneapolis [Minn.] University of Minnesota Pressc20111 online resource (252 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-6561-3 0-8166-6560-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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 amalgamated under a civic, secular, and public order. Aguiar charIndic literature (English)20th centuryHistory and criticismRailroadsIndiaModernism (Aesthetics)IndiaRailroads in literaturePostcolonialismIndiaPopular cultureSocial aspectsIndiaMass mediaSocial aspectsIndiaPartition, Territorial, in literatureIndic literature (English)History and criticism.RailroadsModernism (Aesthetics)Railroads in literature.PostcolonialismPopular cultureSocial aspectsMass mediaSocial aspectsPartition, Territorial, in literature.820.9/3558Aguiar Marian1482943MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910789869703321Tracking modernity3700901UNINA