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Deccan
- 1980 ----- color ----- 62 min ----- 16mm
- (Great Railway Journeys of the World series) Nothing in the imagination can quite prepare the first-time visitor for the pure shock of India. Writer Brian Tompson, complete with his £30 rail pass and a hazy notion of a destination, boards the 85 Down Madras Mail. He finds India as he passes through four states and crosses the dusty Deccan Plain up into the Nilgiri Mountains and south to the sea--the steam locomotive fast becoming as archetypal an image of India as hungry faces. This is not a film specifically designed for rail buffs, rather it is about people, people who work and travel on trains for trains, unlike airplanes and cars, enforce contact between people, communities and countries. (Produced by BBC)
- Topics: (South Asian Studies, Transportation)
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