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The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
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The Purveyors of Destiny - A Cultural Biography of the Indian Railways
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“It is no coincidence that Rudyard Kipling’s first novel, and other books, The Story of the Gadsbys, The Phantom Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales, and Wee Willie Winkie and Other Stories, In Black and White, et al, were published under Wheeler’s Railway Library Series. The books were illustrated by his father, John Lockwood Kipling. Kipling was not French, but became equally popular. He was sensational in his own way of fancying militarism and hierarchy.”
― The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
― The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
“Notwithstanding the ecclesiastical resistance to Wheeler’s and its notoriously ‘French’ content— especially books authored by the controversial writer, Emile Zola—the stalls had acquired exclusive rights to sell books on all Indian stations in the north, west and east, and also began issuing advertisements in favour of the Indian Railways. This is how the Wheeler stalls came to be ‘in service of the nation.”
― The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
― The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
“With the decorous and even scholarly publications from Higginbotham’s in the south, there might have been questions raised on the quality of the content sold by Wheeler’s, in the rest of the country.”
― The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
― The Great Indian Railways: A Cultural Biography
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