India's Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey - Hardcover

McDonald, Angus

9781783130115: India's Disappearing Railways: A Photographic Journey

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1783130113 ISBN 13: 9781783130115

Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd, 2015

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Accompanies the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) exhibition of the same name which opened 3 December 2014
Includes a foreword by Sir Mark Tully, the BBC's Chief of Bureau in India for 20 years - that evokes the very soul of India
It is an intimate and humorous portrait capturing for the first time in print the sub-continent's unique narrow-gauge hill railways in all their beauty, joy and pathos
As the nation modernises, government funding for these railways is stopping and the railways will vanish forever

India's Disappearing Railways is a vibrant photo-essay by Australian photographer Angus McDonald, capturing for the first time in print the sub-continent's unique narrow-gauge railways in all their vivid colour, character and chaos. It is an intimate and humorous portrait of life on the trains, evoking the very soul of India; with a rare empathy and insight illustrates the lives of those who ride them, who work on them, and who live alongside them. Yet as the nation modernizes, these railways, whether in the snow-peaked Himalaya, the terai of Rajasthan or the verdant Nilgiri Hills of Tamil Nadu - are vanishing. India's Disappearing Railyways records a way of life that is slowly disappearing and documents the diversity of this vast and multi-layered country from a unique standpoint.

Contents:
Foreword by Sir Mark Tully; Introduction; The Gwalior Light Railway; The Darjeeling Himalyan Railway; The Barak Valley Express; The Aravali Railway; The Kangra Valley Railway; The Dabhoi Railways; The Shakuntala Express; The Kalka-Shimla Railway; The Matheran Light Railway; The Nilgiri Mountain Railway; Postscript

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About the Author:

Photojournalist and travel writer Angus McDonald spent three years compiling INDIA'S DISAPPEARING RAILWAYS: an homage to the country he loved and in which he grew up and, as an adult, travelled and lived for eight years. His photographs and articles have appeared in leading publications worldwide and he is the author of The Five Foot Road: In Search of a Vanished China (Angus & Robertson) which documented his 1994 journey across China to Burma in the footsteps of George Ernest Morrison: 'Morrison of Peking'. Angus died suddenly whilst travelling in Burma in 2013, at the age of fifty.

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