The technological Indian

by Bassett, Ross Knox

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Full title :The technological Indian / Ross Bassett.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2016

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Harvard University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Massachusetts
Language:eng
Publication Date:2016

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Description:1 online resource (1 recurso electrónico.)

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ISBN:9780674088986, 0674088980
oclc:ocn984811299
Dewey Decimal:338.954/06

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. The Indian Discovery of America; Poona, the Mahratta, and the World; Rising America, Declining England; The Internationalization of the World; India in the Technological World; Creating Bourgeois Indians; The Movement for Industrialization in Poona; MIT and Technical Education in Two Lands; Keshav Bhat; A Memorial to the Queen; Chapter 2. American-Made Swadeshi; The Global Indian Entrepreneur: J. N. Tata; Small-Scale Industrialization in Western India; Indian Students in America; Asia's Mixed Welcome from America.

Chapter 3. Gandhi's IndustryThe Divergence of Parallel Lives; Gandhi as Engineer; The Charkha and Gandhi's Industrious Indian; Chapter 4. From Gujarat to Cambridge; T. M. Shah's Letters Home; Bhavnagar and MIT; The Mahatma and the Engineer; Chapter 5. Engineering a Colonial State; Pandya's Progress; The Travails of T. M. Shah; Chapter 6. Tryst with America, Tryst with MIT; Big Plans, Small Steps; A. V. Hill and the Idea of an Indian MIT (Again); America's Ambivalence toward India; Chapter 7. High Priests of Nehru's India; Private Enterprise and the Developmental State.

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History Inde -- Histoire India India -- History Massachusetts Institute of Technology Students, Foreign Technology transfer Technology transfer -- History. -- India Transfert de technologie -- Histoire. -…