Tracks of Change: Railways and Everyday Life in Colonial India
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Review Number: 2049 Publish date: Thursday, 19 January, 2017 Author: Ritika Prasad ISBN: 9781107084216 Date of Publication: 2015 Price: £19.99 Pages: 326pp. Publisher: Cambridge University Press Publisher url: http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/history/south-asian-history/tracks-change-railways-andeveryday-life-colonial-india?format=HB Place of Publication: Cambridge Reviewer: Aparajita Mukhopadhyay
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