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*[http://indianrail.wikia.com/wiki/Kharagpur Kharagpur]Indianrail.wiki. Article includes photograph of railway station | *[http://indianrail.wikia.com/wiki/Kharagpur Kharagpur]Indianrail.wiki. Article includes photograph of railway station | ||
*[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 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.indiaofthepast.org/contribute-memories/read-contributions/life-back-then/140-american-boyhood-british-india "An American Boyhood in British India"] by Stanley E Brush, born 1925. indiaofthepast.org. The author's father was an American Baptist Minister, at the American Baptist Mission at Khargpur. | ||
*"Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement, born 1928, 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.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 | ||
Revision as of 23:29, 1 October 2015
Kharagpur is situated about 120km west of Calcutta, a junction on the Bengal Nagpur Railway
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
- Kharagpur, West Bengal Wikipedia
- KharagpurIndianrail.wiki. Article includes photograph of railway station
- 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.
- "An American Boyhood in British India" by Stanley E Brush, born 1925. indiaofthepast.org. The author's father was an American Baptist Minister, at the American Baptist Mission at Khargpur.
- "Highlights In The Shadows" by Owen Clement, born 1928, includes memories of Kharagpur Part 4 His father’s apprenticeship, Part 10 Early Life, Part 15 Kharagpur, Part 16 Railway Institute
- Photograph of the Railway Workshop in 1909
- The Bengal-Nagpur Railway Lockout Kharagpur 1927 marxists.org
- Plan of the Railway Colony at Kharagpur page 55 The Bungalow in Twentieth-Century India by Madhavi Desai, Miki Desai, Jon Lang Google Books