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The Journey: Essays on the Indian Railways 1853 - 2015: The Coming of the Railways

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  • Anuradha Kumar

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Tracking the the Indian Railways is as much an exercise in history as it is an excursion into the political and social debates of the period that determined the fate of a nation. This is the first in a series of eSSays on the history of the Indian Railways.

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  • Anuradha Kumar, 2015. "The Journey: Essays on the Indian Railways 1853 - 2015: The Coming of the Railways," Working Papers id:7777, eSocialSciences.
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    1. W. J. Macpherson, 1955. "Investment In Indian Railways, 1845–1875," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 8(2), pages 177-186, December.
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