Let there be light : engineering, entrepreneurship and electricity in Colonial Bengal, 1880-1945 / Suvobrata Sarkar

Englisch

Cambridge, UK ; New York ; Melbourne ; New Delhi ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020

xiv, 294 Seiten : Illustrationen

Includes bibliographical references and index

Archivierung/Langzeitarchivierung gewährleistet (Rechtsgrundlage FID) . Univ. Heidelberg, CATS, Südasi

Erscheint auch als: Online-Ausgabe- Sarkar, Suvobrata: Let there be light. - Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2020

978-1-108-83598-5 hbk. : GBP 75,00

Weitere Ausgaben: 978-1-108-87420-5 (Fernzugriff)

9781108835985

*Bengalen / Ingenieurwissenschaften / Elektrizität / Entrepreneurship / Geschichte 1880-1945

*Electrification -- Economic aspects -- India -- Bengal -- History ; Electrical engineering -- India -- Bengal -- History ; Industrialization -- India -- Bengal -- History ; Technology and state -- India -- Bengal -- History ; Bengal (India) -- History

Elektrizitätspolitik / Unternehmer / Wirtschaftsgeschichte / West Bengal / 1880-1945

Klassifikation der Library of Congress: HD9685.I43

Dewey Dezimal-Klassifikation: 338.0954/1409041;

Regensburger Verbund-Klassifikation: NP 6700: N Geschichte / NP Von der Restauration bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges (1815 - 1918) / NP 5620-NP 6800 Geschichte der auswärtigen Staaten (1815 - 1918) / NP 6600-NP 6750 Mittel- und Ostasien / Indien

"Social and economic history of science and technology has emerged as a major theme of interdisciplinary research in South Asian history since the late 1990s. This book contributes to the field by exploring the correlation between technological knowledge and industrial performance with a focus on electricity, an emerging technology during 1880 and 1945. The arrival of electricity necessitated the introduction of new institutional facilities and with the growth of technological systems, the culture of entrepreneurship grew - there was demand for trained manpower to handle machines and need for better educational facilities. Taking a broad view of the subject, the narrative is built around the historical experiences of the local Bengali-speaking population in colonial Bengal. While recent research on science and technology under the colonial rule tends to focus on elite actors-both European and Indian - it is important to identify people, mostly Indians, who excelled in the field of technology, without prior academic training in engineering or science. This monograph brings back focus on the hitherto unexplored vernacular sources and emphasizes that the history of technology in India is basically a history of India, the history of its people, and not simply a history of the Indian techno-scientific tradition as proposed by the literature emerging from the West. Adopting the social constructionist model, it presents an amalgamation of archival and Indian language source materials to delineate the diverse nature of the appropriation of technological ideas into Indian culture."

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