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The technological Indian /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England :
Harvard University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.
- Brahm Prakash, Atomic Energy, and RocketryDarshan 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; Reconnecting to India.
- The Indian EntrepreneurConclusion; MIT and the Mahatma; Notes; Acknowledgments; Index.