Bear Lines of the Nation

Indian Railway Workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-0-231-51151-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 360 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Cultures of History

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Bear, Laura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1
1. The Indian Railways and the Management of the Material and Moral Progress of Nations, 1849–1860
2. An Indian Traveling Public, 1850–1900
3. Governing the Railway Family, 1860–1900
4. Industrial Unrest and the Cultivation of Railway Communities, 1897–1931
5. An Economy of Suffering: The Ethics of Popular Nationalism in Petitions from Railway Workers, 1930–1947
6. Public Genealogies: Anglo-Indian Family Histories and the Railway Archive, 1927–1950
Part 2
7. Uncertain Origins and the Strategies of Love: Portraits of Anglo-Indian Railway Families
8. Traces of the Archive: Documents, Bodies, and Nations in Anglo-Indian Family Histories
9. Railway Morality: Status and Authority in the Postcolonial Railway Bureaucracy
10. Ruins and Ghosts: The Uncanny and the Topography of the Colonial Past in the Railway Colony
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.