The technological Indian

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In the late 1800s India seemed to be left behind by the Industrial Revolution. Today there are many technological Indians around the world but relatively few focus on India's problems. Ross Bassett--drawing on a database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology through 2000--explains the role of MIT in this outcome.

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Full title :The technological Indian / Ross Bassett.

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Publication Date:2016.

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

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Description:1 online resource (386 pages)

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ISBN:9780674088986, 0674088980
DOI:10.4159/9780674088986
oclc:ocn925305899
LC Classification:T27.I4
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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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries History HISTORY -- 20th Century. -- United Stat… Inde -- Histoire India India -- History Massachusetts Institute of Technology Students, Foreign Technology transfer Technology transfer -- History. -- India Transfert de technologie -- Histoire. -…