Lines of the Nation Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self

Name: Lines of the Nation Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
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ISBN: 9780231140027

ISBN-10: 0231140029

ISBN-13: 9780231140027

Edition: 2007 (Annotated)

Authors: Laura Bear

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Indian railway institutions have had a profound effect on the political and domestic lives of railway workers. Drawing on historical and ethnographic research in the company town at Kharagpur and at the Eastern Railway headquarters in Kolkata (Calcutta), Laura Bear recasts the history of India's railways, long regarded as vectors of modernity and economic prosperity. In its classification of workers by caste, race, gender, and nationality, railway bureaucracy played a pivotal role in the creation of idioms of family history, kinship, and ethics, and its special categorization of Anglo-Indian workers still resonates today. From the design of carriages to the architecture of stations, racial…

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List price: $80.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/26/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.95" long x 0.12" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English

Laura Bear is lecturer in anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the author of the novel The Jadu House: Intimate Histories of Anglo-India.



Acknowledgments


Introduction






The Indian Railways and the Management of the Material and Moral Progress of Nations, 1849--1860



An Indian Traveling Public, 1850--1900



Governing the Railway Family, 1860--1900



Industrial Unrest and the Cultivation of Railway Communities, 1897--1931



An Economy of Suffering: The Ethics of Popular Nationalism in Petitions from Railway Workers, 1930--1947



Public Genealogies: Anglo-Indian Family Histories and the Railway Archive, 1927--1950






Uncertain Origins and the Strategies of Love: Portraits of Anglo-Indian Railway Families



Traces of the Archive: Documents, Bodies, and Nations in Anglo-Indian Family Histories



Railway Morality: Status and Authority in the Postcolonial Railway Bureaucracy



Ruins and Ghosts: The Uncanny and the Topography of the Colonial Past in the Railway Colony


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index