ISBN:
9780674088986
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (397 pages)
Parallel Title:
Bassett, Ross Knox, 1959 - The technological Indian
DDC:
338.95406
Keywords:
India--History
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology Foreign students
;
Technology transfer India
;
History
;
India ; History
;
India History
;
Electronic books
;
India
;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
;
Indischer Student
;
Geschichte
;
Indien
;
Wissens- und Technologietransfer
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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 Industry -- The 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 -- Brahm Prakash, Atomic Energy, and Rocketry -- Darshan Bhatia, Government-Sponsored Research, and Coca-Cola -- Chapter 8. Business Families and MIT -- Business Families in India before 1947 -- S. L. Kirloskar -- G. D. Birla and the Birla Institute of Technology and Science -- Aditya Birla -- Other Business Families -- Chapter 9. The Roots of IT India -- The Computer at MIT -- The Computer in India -- The Tata Computer Centre -- Anti-Automation -- TCS 2.0 -- Lalit Kanodia and Datamatics -- Patni Computer and the Road to Infosys -- Chapter 10. From India to Silicon Valley -- A New MIT -- Paths in America.
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