Tracking Modernity: India’s Railway and the Culture of Mobility

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· 219 · Index Note: Page numbers in italics indicate figures. accidents, 155–59, 172 Adas, Michael, 66 Ahmad, Shahid, 86 Ahuja, Ravi, 41 alienation, 2–3, 109, 155, 181 Ali, Imtiaz, xxii, 144 Ali, Zahida Amjad, 78–79 Ampthill, Lord, 64 Amrohi, Kamal, xii, xxii, 130, 141–44, 154 Anderson, Benedict, 7 Anderson, Wes, 25, 127, 138 Anglo-Indians, 18, 21–22, 58, 162–63 “angry young man” films, 131 anti-colonialism. See decolonization Aparajito (film), 109, 112–15 Apur Sansar (film), 109, 114–17 Aradhana (film), 131 Arnold, David, 11, 69 Arora, Malika, 131, 146 Aurobindo Ghose, xix, 49, 62–64, 179 Bachchan, Amitabh, 131, 133 Badami, Anita Rau, 118, 121–24 Baldwin, Shauna Singh, 80, 97 Balibar, Etienne, 77–78 Banerjee, Surendranath, 59 Barthes, Roland, 151 Baudrillard, Jean, 161, 168 Bear, Laura, 20–22, 59, 136 Before Sunrise (film), 138 Benjamin, Walter, 69 Bentinck, William, 11 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), 165 Bhasin, Kamla, 74, 97 Bhowani Junction (film), 162 Bloch, Ernst, 156 Bodoland Liberation Tigers Force (BLTF), 166 Boehmer, Elleke, 151 Bollywood films, xxii–xxiii, 130–48, 181 Bose, Sugata, 61 Bourke-White, Margaret, 75, 76 Boyle, Danny, xi, xii, 176–77 Buddhism, 44 bureaucracy, 9, 11, 102, 133 Burke, Edmund, 15 Burning Train, The (film), xxii, 130–33, 153 Butalia, Urvashi, 74, 97 capitalism, xix–xx, 18, 65; and industrialization , xix, 52, 101–2, 106; Marx’s critique of, 4, 12, 15, 64; and modernity, 2–6, 9, 181–82 Carpenter, Edward, 69 Carter, Ian, 145, 164 caste, 15–17, 104, 121. See also class Certeau, Michel de, 28–29, 93–94, 171. See also utopia, rational 220 INDEX Ceserani, Remo, 91 Chakrabarty, Dipesh, 161 Chander, Krishan, 89 Chandra, Vikram, 118, 154 Chapman, John, xiii Chatterjee, Abinash Chandra, 58 Chatterjee, Partha, 65 Chhalia (film), 80, 81, 83, 143 Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus. See Mumbai railway stations Chopra, Aditya, xxii, 128, 130, 143–44 Chopra, Ravi, xxii, 130–33, 153 Christie, Agatha, 153 Chunder, Bholanatha, 13–15, 35–36, 134–35 “civilizing mission,” 11 class, 17–23, 57–60, 121, 133, 177; and caste, 15–17, 104; and public space, 29–31, 123–25; targeting of, 167 Clifford, James, xviii, xxi, 9 colonialism, xiii–xvii, 24–27, 84, 100; “civilizing mission” of, 11; culture of, 48, 179; “drain theory” of, xviii–xix, 41, 49–56, 60–61, 65–66, 72; and nationalist leaders, xix, 49, 60–72, 179–80 “communalism,” 77, 82, 85, 96, 161, 169 Coolie (film), xxii, 131, 133 Cooper, Frederick, 3 Cotton, Arthur, 55–56, 179 “courtesan films,” 141 Cukor, Greg, 162 Daiya, Kavita, 81, 90 Dalhousie, Lord, xiv, xvii, 6–7, 11, 26, 42–43, 50 Daly, Nicholas, 145, 154, 155 Danvers, Juland, 6, 16–17, 50, 57–58 Darjeeling Limited (film), 25, 127, 138 Datta, Narendranath. See Vivekananda, Swami Davidson, Edward, xv Davis, Mike, xviii, 151, 160 “death train,” xx–xxi, 164–65, 180; in Mehta’s Earth, 91–93, 164; in Singh’s Train to Pakistan, 89, 90–91, 164 decolonization, xxi–xxii, 38; Bose on, 61; and nationalism, 76, 83, 84, 126; and technology, 48–72 deforestation, 55–56. See also environmental concerns democracy, 2, 10; and liberalism, 16, 29, 60, 148, 179 Derailed (film), 154 Desai, Kiran, 128–29 Desai, Manmohan, xii; Chhalia, 80, 81, 83, 143; Coolie, xxii, 131, 133 Devdas (film), 130 diasporic culture, xii, xxii, 96–97, 104, 127–29; and Bollywood films, 143–44, 148; and terrorism, 166 Dickens, Charles, 154, 164 Digby, William, 55 Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (film), xxii, 128, 130, 143–44 Douglass, W., 161 “drain theory,” xviii–xix, 41, 49–56, 60–61, 65–66, 72 D’Souza, Sebastian, xi, 172 Dutt, Romesh, xviii, 51–53, 72, 102 Earth (film), xx, 82, 92–94, 164 East India Company, xiii, 5 education, 12, 36; and apprenticeships , 58; “civilizing mission” of, 11; urban, 114 Elmer, Marc, 69 environmental concerns, xix, 49, 55–56 famines, xix, 49, 54–56, 71–72, 179 Festival of Empire (1911), 35 INDEX 221 film genre: of “angry young men,” 131; of courtesans, 141; of national resolution, 81; of terrorism, 132; of U.S. Westerns, 131–32 Forster, E. M., 33–34 Foucault, Michel, 1, 38 Fraser, Andrew, 162 Freeman, Michael, 10, 105 Frere, Bartle, 6 Furnell, Michael, 30, 31–33 Futehally, Shuma, xxii, 103, 122, 124–26 Gabriel, Karen, 138, 140, 142–43 Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (film), 82, 91–94, 164 Gandhi, Indira, 131, 133 Gandhi, Mohandas, xii...