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''Lines of the nation : Indian railway workers, bureaucracy, and the intimate historical self''. New York: Colombia University Press, 2007 (Cultures of history)
Built 1898-1900 as the main workshop for the Bengal-Nagpur Railway, Kharagpur was also a railway colony. This book is the result of several years’ ground research exploring the culture and ethnography of the (large) Anglo-Indian community that remains there. A review 'must read' for this recommended title will be added shortlyAnglo-Indians with railway roots but uncomfortable in places (e.g. ch. 6 'Public Genealogies' which deals with attempts by the East Indian Railway in the wake of the 1923 Lee Commission to change the classification of its staff by race – European, East Indian, Indian – to one based on domicile – Asiatic, Non-Asiatic). (Reviewed by Hugh Wilding, FIBIS trustee)
