Engines of change
Subtitle: the railroads that made India
By: Ian J. Kerr.
Series: Moving through history
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780275985646
Subjects: Railroads -- India -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The pioneering decades, ca. 1853 to ca. 1870; title: Construction, 1850-2003; title: 1870-1905, overview; title: Taking stock, ca. 1905; title: "Nationalizing" the railroads, 1905-1947; title: Partition and a rail network sundered; title: To serve the nation : railroads in independent India, 1947-2005.