Indian Railways: The Weaving of a National Tapestry

Year
2017
Publisher
Penguin Random House India
Author
Bibek Debroy, Sanjay Chadha, Vidya Krishnamurthi
Management Discipline
Business Management
Source
Indian Business Practices
About the book

The fascinating story of the network that made modern India.. Even more importantly, the railways played a large part in the making of the nation: by connecting historically and geographically disparate regions and people, it forever changed the way Indians lived and thought and eventually made a national identity possible. This engagingly written, anecdotally told history captures the immense power of a business behemoth as well as the romance of train travel; tracing the growth of the railways from the 1830s to Independence, Bibek Debroy and his co-authors recount how the railway network was built in India and how it grew to become a lifeline that still weaves the nation together.