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Book Synopsis Hill Railways of the Indian Subcontinent by : Richard Wallace
Download or read book Hill Railways of the Indian Subcontinent written by Richard Wallace and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2021-02-22 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes seven branch lines which climbed into the mountain ranges that span the length and breadth of the countries of India and Pakistan. Some - like the Darjeeling Himalayan - are well known, but others - like the Zhob Valley, Khyber Pass and Kangra Valley lines - are less so. Several of these railways were also the last bastions of steam operation in the sub-continent. Unsurprisingly, as hill railways, most of them reached remarkable heights, many using ingenious feats of engineering to assist their climb into seemingly impenetrable terrain. These lines served diverse locations, each with its own characteristics, from the hostile territories of the North-West Frontier, along the spectacular foothills of the Himalayas, skirting the Western Ghats of the Deccan down to the gentle rolling landscape of the Nilgiris, or Blue Hills, of South India. The book gives the histories of the seven hill railways including summaries of their operations and routes. Maps and gradient charts for all seven railway lines are given as well as listings of the locomotives operating the hill railways.
Book Synopsis Railways of the British Empire: The Indian Subcontinent by : Colin Alexander
Download or read book Railways of the British Empire: The Indian Subcontinent written by Colin Alexander and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating previously unpublished images of railways around the world built by British companies with British locomotives, rolling stock and other infrastructure.
Book Synopsis East Kent Road Car Company Ltd: Services of the Golden Jubilee Era by : Richard Wallace
Download or read book East Kent Road Car Company Ltd: Services of the Golden Jubilee Era written by Richard Wallace and published by The Crowood Press. This book was released on 2019-05-31 with total page 423 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Kent - Services of the Golden Jubilee Era takes the reader on a journey along the routes of all the stage-carriage services operated by East Kent in 1968, just after the Company celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1966/7, and immediately prior to the National Bus Company (NBC) taking full control. This book reveals the contrasting nature of East Kent's services from rural byways to the seasonal, but very busy routes serving the still-popular resorts around the Kent coast. It includes a comprehensive fleet list and details a specimen allocation of cars to each service on a typical day in 1968; local route maps of all major town services as well as a sectionalised reproduction of the original East Kent network map of 1968 and, finally, a summary of the Centenary celebrations of 2016. It is superbly illustrated by over two hundred and fifty photographs, most not published before, of nearly every bus route as well as most London express services and all the operational garages. The author has worked as a driver and a conductor for EKRCC and part owns an ex-East Kent AEC Regent V.
Book Synopsis Natural Stone and World Heritage: Delhi-Agra, India by : Gurmeet Kaur
Download or read book Natural Stone and World Heritage: Delhi-Agra, India written by Gurmeet Kaur and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-05-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses heritage stones which were used in the making of the architectonic heritage of Delhi and Agra, encompassing UNESCO world heritage sites and heritage sites designated as prominent by the Indian government. The most famous monument of the two cities is the ‘Taj Mahal’ of Agra. The book focuses on the geological characteristics of the famous Makrana marble, red sandstone and other sandstone variants of the Vindhyan basin and Delhi quartzite, the most widely used stones in almost all the monuments, as well as on their quarries. The work also aims to sensitise the public to protecting and preserving the architectonic heritage of these two densely populated cities in India as repositories of our past cultures and traditions. Identifying the nature and provenance of stones/rocks used in construction will lead to better restoration for future generations, in light of the deterioration of architectonic heritage through various natural weathering agencies and anthropogenic activities. The book will serve as a useful source book to economic geologists, geologists, archaeologists, architects, historians and stone industry operators specifically and to academic and non-academic communities, travellers and tourism industry operators in general. The book will benefit students, researchers, and rock enthusiasts spanning all age groups and academic levels.
Book Synopsis East Kent Road Car Company Ltd by : Richard Wallace
Download or read book East Kent Road Car Company Ltd written by Richard Wallace and published by Crowood. This book was released on 2016-02-29 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: East Kent Road Car Company Ltd - A Century of Service, 1916-2016, celebrates one hundred years of a bus operation that is still very much recognizable for its origins. Unlike so many proud names that have diasppeared in recent times, the old identity of East Kent Road Car Co Ltd is still carried as the legal lettering on the Stagecoach-owned buses operating in the area today. This book takes the reader on a journey through those one hundred years. It covers the initial developments of the 1920s and 30s, the challenges of World War II, the halcyon days of the 1950s and the descent into the economic struggles of the 1960s. Nationalization and an eventual move back into the private sector are also covered, finishing with a description of the innovative approach to new services developed by the local Stagecoach management today. With over two hundred illustrations, both black and white and colour, many previously unpublished, this book provides a wide-ranging historical and pictorial record of the buses, artefacts and operations of the East Kent Road Car Company. Fully illustrated with over 200 colour and black & white illustrations, many previously unpublished.
Book Synopsis Hill Railways of the Indian Subcontinent by : Richard Wallace
Download or read book Hill Railways of the Indian Subcontinent written by Richard Wallace and published by Crowood Press (UK). This book was released on 2021-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains the histories of seven hill railways of the Indian Subcontinent including summaries of their operations as well as maps and gradient charts for all seven lines.
Book Synopsis Banking Awareness for SBI & IBPS and Other Exams E-Book by : Adda247 Publications
Download or read book Banking Awareness for SBI & IBPS and Other Exams E-Book written by Adda247 Publications and published by Adda247 Publications. This book was released on with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adda247 brings to you the one-stop solution to all your worries regarding the preparation of Banking Awareness for the GA Section of Banking Examinations. Banking Awareness is a very important topic that every banking aspirant must prepare. This is not only a part of the General Awareness section but it is also important from interview's point of view where the panel will expect you to be aware of the whereabouts of facts and figures related to banking industry. This eBook is prepared by the team of Adda247 under the guidance of Gopal Anand Sir who has been providing aspirants with the G.K Power Capsules for as a compact solution to crack the General Awareness section of competitive exams. It will help you to prepare for SBI, IBPS, RBI Grade-B & Other Competitive Exams. The best feature of these note being provided as ebooks is it will ensure timely and regular updates, easy to understand the content and hassle-free studies as you can access the ebook online on Adda247 Store or on your mobile device using the Adda247 mobile app. You can subscribe to Banking Awareness eBook package now and the updates will start from 3rd May 2018, where you'll get ebook updates on a weekly basis. Salient Feature of Banking Awareness eBook by Adda247 Publications: -Covers all important topics of Banking Awareness in 40 Chapters. -Easy to Understand notes prepared by a team of experts. -Regular Updates
Download or read book Temple Tracks written by Vineeta Sinha and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2023 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The notions of labour, mobility and piety have a complex and intertwined relationship. Using ethnographic methods and a historical perspective, Temple Tracks critically outlines the interlink of railway construction in colonial and post-colonial Asia, as well as the anthropology of infrastructure and transnational mobilities with religion. In Malaysia and Singapore, evidence of religion-making and railway-building from a colonial past is visible in multiple modes and media as memories, recollections and 'traces'.
Book Synopsis The Tentacles of Progress by : Daniel R. Headrick
Download or read book The Tentacles of Progress written by Daniel R. Headrick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-03-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This penetrating examination of a paradox of colonial rule shows how the massive transfers of technology--including equipment, techniques, and experts--from the European imperial powers to their colonies in Asia and Africa resulted not in industrialization but in underdevelopment. Examining the most important technologies--shipping and railways, telegraphs and wireless, urban water supply and sewage disposal, economic botany and plantation agriculture, irrigation, and mining and metallurgy--Headrick provides a new perspective on colonial economic history and reopens the debate on the roots of Asian and African underdevelopment.
Download or read book Geography 10 written by RK Jain and published by Ratna Sagar. This book was released on with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ICSE Geography is a series based on the latest syllabus for ICSE schools. They cover all aspects of the subject, such as practical geography, continents and water bodies, their physical features, climate, natural vegetation, resources, utilization and life of the people. Large-sized maps make learning geography a hands-on experience. Exercises on the pattern of the board exams will help children to prepare for them.
Book Synopsis The Ravaged Paradise by : Dipanwita Dasgupta
Download or read book The Ravaged Paradise written by Dipanwita Dasgupta and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-03 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a systematic attempt to explore the environmental history of Darjeeling during the British colonial period (1835-1947), which profoundly transformed the environment of Darjeeling by introducing commercial control over the natural resources. After the foundation of Darjeeling as the hill station for the low-income groups of British administration living in Bengal and Burma, the place was transformed into a social, recreational and commercial centre for the British authorities. The railway construction boom, introduction of tea plantation, the growth of a commercial market for timber and increasing demands for fuel and building materials depleted the forest cover. The less explored regions of Darjeeling attracted the adventure-thirsty Britons. A series of investigations were made on the marketable products, the condition of roads, and quality of soil of these regions. The ethnographic, geological, botanical and zoological study of the Darjeeling was started by the colonial officials in the nineteenth century. In the early stage of expansion of colonialism in Asia, Africa, Australia and South America, the European colonizers faced numerous problems in dealing with the untouched nature. The accumulation of the knowledge of surrounding regions and proper management of the labour became essential for the colonial authority for transformation of the existing environment of the densely forested tropical colonies. Taylor and Francis does not sell or distribute the print editions of this book in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Download or read book Engines of Change written by Ian J. Kerr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-12-30 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The former Jewel in the Crown of the British Empire, India remains, by any measure, a major economic and political actor on the world scene. Without her extensive railway network—completed against all odds by her British colonial masters—it is impossible to imagine what might have become of the diverse lands and peoples of the subcontinent. These railway networks brought them together as a colony; these networks fostered the nationalism that would be Britain's downfall. This rail network both remade the physical landscape and brought social-cultural cohesion to a diverse and wide-ranging populace. It would be common rail travel that Gandhi would employ to reach the masses. From its romantic mystique to its dangerous reality, it is rail travel today that keeps vital social, cultural, economic and political forces moving. India's railroad history serves as a unique lens to her larger story of triumph over adversity. By 1905, India had the world's fourth largest railway network—a position it retains in the early 21st century. The railroads were at the organizational and technological center of many of the inter-related economic, political, social, cultural, and ecological transformations that produced modern India through, and out of, its colonial past. In addition to this vast technical achievement, and (in keeping with the series focus), there is an equally important and wide-sweeping human-interest tale to be told with evocative vignettes of the triumph of the human spirit (one billion strong!) in the face of great adversity.
Download or read book India by Rail written by Royston Ellis and published by Hunter Publishing (NJ). This book was released on 1989 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Successful Tourism by : Pran Nath Seth
Download or read book Successful Tourism written by Pran Nath Seth and published by Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. This book was released on 2006-12-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is the world's second largest industry employing on an average one out of twenty adult men and women world-wide and the ratio is one out of ten when it comes to the developed countries like USA. The growing ranks of international leisure travellers are being influenced by business travellers who, are flooding into India as a result of economic liberalisation. It is thus imperative that our professional tourism corps be trained to meet these exacting requirements. Both in public and private sectors, the increasing understanding of these needs is leading to the development of institutes, training centres and academic programmes in tourism management. There is thus a great need for comprehensive professional literature. This two-volume series volume tells readers all that they want to know about tourism -- its history, networks and intricate operations. Volume Two discusses in detail how different tourism sectors operate and market themselves -- travel agencies, tour operators, hotels, restaurants, airlines -- as well as the impact of changing technology on their activities.
Book Synopsis The Making of India by : Kartar Lalvani
Download or read book The Making of India written by Kartar Lalvani and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of The Making of India begins in the seventeenth century, when a small seafaring island, one tenth the size of the Indian subcontinent, despatched sailing ships over 11,000 miles on a five-month trading journey in search of new opportunities. In the end they helped build a new nation. The sheer audacity and scale of such an endeavour, the courage and enterprise, have no parallel in world history. This book is the first to assess in a single volume almost all aspects of Britain's remarkable contribution in providing India with its lasting institutional and physical infrastructure, which continues to underpin the world's largest democracy in the twenty-first century.
Book Synopsis Basics of Tourism Management by : Mishra
Download or read book Basics of Tourism Management written by Mishra and published by Excel Books India. This book was released on 2009 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporates the rudiments of tourism management for the students. This book examines the key elements of tourism - why it is an important global business and how it affects our everyday lives. It shows how the tourism industry is organized, run and managed. It is suitable for those interested in tourism.
Download or read book India written by Veena Sheshadri and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are the Himalayas considered geologically alive? When did the First train huff and puff its way between two stations in India? What was Indias very own desi dino called? How did Indias currency come to be Named the rupee? Which Indian glacier is the highest battleground in The world? Who wrote the worlds first grammar book? If questions like these make you curious about incredible India, here is a bumper info-pedia packed with fascinating facts, terrific trivia and colourful Cartoons on just about everything in India, this book encourages interest in a wide range of subjects. Use it for homework help, for project ideas, to Boost your general knowledge or as a ready reference because this must have Book makes getting to know India as easy as ABC.
