Category:
Railway History
ISBN Number:
978 0 143 42675 2
Blurb of Book:
The engagingly written, anecdotally told history captures the immense power of a business behemoth as well as the romance of train travel.
Name of Publisher:
Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd.
Edition of the Book:
First
Print Year:
2017
Print Location:
India
Where to buy:
Book Stores in india
"The railways brought modernity to India. Its vast network connected fsr corners of the sub-continent, making travel, communicstion snd commerce simpler than ever before. Even more importantly, the railways played a large part in the making of the nation: by connecting historically and geographically disparate regions and people, it forever changed the way Indians lived and thought and eventually made a national identity possible". The book attempts to capture the various facets in which rail transformed life for the country and its citizens.