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*[http://www.topix.com/album/detail/in/kharagpur/M4AR3GHFPP9ST8VJ Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909]
 
*[http://www.topix.com/album/detail/in/kharagpur/M4AR3GHFPP9ST8VJ Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909]
 
*[http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/labour_monthly/1927/12/x01.htm  The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Lockout]  Kharagpur 1927 marxists.org
 
*[http://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/labour_monthly/1927/12/x01.htm  The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Lockout]  Kharagpur 1927 marxists.org
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*[https://books.google.com.au/books?id=Re7ixChJUvUC&pg=PA55 Plan of the Railway Colony at Kharagpur] page 55 ''The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India'' by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai, Jon Lang Google Books
  
 
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Kharagpur is situated about 120km west of Calcutta, a junction on the Bengal Nagpur Railway

Photograph of the Kharagpur Loco Running Staff 1910

Originally it was the railway suburb of Midnapore (Medinipur), but increased in importance when BNR made it the headquarters, with workshops, of its Locomotive, Carriage and Wagon Departments

Spelling variants

Kharagpur, Khargpur

Recommended Reading

  • Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear. This book is reviewed in Transport and communications reading list

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