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Contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Methodological Musings, Analytical Signposts

Chapter 1. Retelling Railway Histories: Centring Labour
Chapter 2. Constructing Colonial Railway Networks in Malaya
Chapter 3. Work and Living Spaces of Railway Labour
Chapter 4. Mapping ‘Railwaymen Temples’ in Singapore and Malaysia
Chapter 5. Sojourneying with Muṉīsvaraṉ the ‘Railway God’
Chapter 6. Railways and Religion: Negotiating Colonial and Post-colonial Modernities

Conclusion: Sedimented, Intertwined Histories

Appendices

Glossary
Index

Temple Tracks

Labour, Piety and Railway Construction in Asia

Vineeta Sinha

346 pages, 30 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80539-016-9 Hb Published (August 2023)



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