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==Spelling variants==
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Kharagpur, Khargpur
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]]
   
   
==External links==
==External links==
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharagpur,_West_Bengal Kharagpur, West Bengal] Wikipedia
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kharagpur,_West_Bengal Kharagpur, West Bengal] Wikipedia
*[http://web.ncf.ca/kharagpurdiaspora/ Kharagpur’s Diaspora Reunited]  Website of Corinne Joy Baxter née Crampton for “friends of BNR people”. Her father was a Foreman in the Boiler Dept until they left in 1950. The website contains many photographs.
*[http://web.ncf.ca/kharagpurdiaspora/ Kharagpur’s Diaspora Reunited]  Website of Corinne Joy Baxter née Crampton for “friends of BNR people”. Her father was a Foreman in the Boiler Dept until they left in 1950. The website contains many photographs.
*"Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement includes memories of Kharagpur [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/04/4_my_fathers_sc_1.php#more Part 4 His father’s appreniceship], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/05/10_early_life.php#more Part 10 Early Life], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/06/15_kharagpur.php Part 15 Kharagpur], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/07/16_railway_inst_1.php#more Part 16 Railway Institute]
*"Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement includes memories of Kharagpur [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/04/4_my_fathers_sc_1.php#more Part 4 His father’s apprenticeship], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/05/10_early_life.php#more Part 10 Early Life], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/06/15_kharagpur.php Part 15 Kharagpur], [http://www.openwriting.com/archives/2006/07/16_railway_inst_1.php#more Part 16 Railway Institute]
*[http://www.farewellthewinterline.com/HTMLBook/Chapter2-39-42.html "Bengal Nagpur Railway picnics and outings"] from ''Farewell the Winterline, Memories of a Boyhood in India'' by Stanley Elwood Brush, born  1925
*[http://home.alphalink.com.au/~agilbert/reviewb.html "Book Review: ''Lines of the Nation: Indian Railway workers, Bureaucracy, and the Intimate Historical Self'' Columbia University Press. New York, 2007 by Laura Bear and Reviewed By Robyn Andrews"] ''The International Journal of Anglo-Indian Studies'' Volume 11, Number 1, 2011. Part of the research for this book was carried out at Kharagpur.
*[http://www.kharagpurworkshop.org /Kharagpur Workshop, South Eastern Railway]
*[http://www.kharagpurworkshop.org /Kharagpur Workshop, South Eastern Railway]
*[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]

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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

External links