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INDIAN RAILWAYS - THE WEAVING OF A NATIONAL TAPESTRY

Name of Author: 
Bibek Debroy, Sanjay Chadha & Vidya Krishnamurthi
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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.