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Author

Aguiar, Marian.

Title Tracking modernity [electronic resource] : India's railway and the culture of mobility / Marian Aguiar.

Imprint

Minneapolis [Minn.] : University of Minnesota Press, c2011.

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Available to Pittsburg State University patrons only.

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Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe ProQuest E-Book	Electronic Book	---	Available

Description	xxiv, 226 p.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	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.
Reproduction	Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject	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.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Added Author	ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN	9780816665600 (acid-free paper)
	9780816665617 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
	9780816676705 (electronic bk.)