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Behind the Migrant Train
A Story of Hardship, Commitment & Contribution
What the city forgets about the hands that built it.
Format
Hardcover
Pages
320
Language
English
Release
2026
Editorial Note
The definitive book on the ninety million internal migrants who built modern urban India — reported through five migration corridors and one long refusal to look away.
§ Synopsis
Inside the book.
The tallest tower in every Indian metro was built by hands whose home the metro has never visited. Ninety million internal migrants. Five great migration corridors. One quiet, uncelebrated labour that holds the country up.
Behind the Migrant Train is the definitive contemporary account of internal migration in India — reported over four years across the Bihar–Delhi, Odisha–Surat, Jharkhand–Mumbai, UP–Punjab, and Northeast–Kerala corridors. Combining household surveys, remittance-flow data, and hundreds of on-record interviews at both origin and destination, it is a book about hardship, commitment, and the contribution the country has, for too long, forgotten to name.
§ Table of Contents
Chapters.
- 01Prelude — The Hands That Built The City
- 02Book I — Five Migration Corridors
- 03Book II — Origin: The Villages Left Behind
- 04Book III — Destination: The Cities That Rose
- 05Book IV — Remittance, Return, Reunion
- 06Book V — The Migrant, Named
- 07Coda — What The City Forgets
§ IP Surface
More than a book.
Every CBH title is tracked across twelve revenue surfaces. This grid shows what’s already out, what’s in production, and what’s still available for licensing.
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Series
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Translation
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§ Press & Reviews
The critics say.
“The migration book Indian non-fiction has been circling for a decade.”
— The Caravan
“Reported the way this subject has always deserved.”
— Scroll — Labour Desk
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