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Author Bassett, Ross Knox, 1959- author.

Title The technological Indian / Ross Bassett
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (386 pages)
Contents 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
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Jstor, viewed March 4, 2018)
Subject Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Foreign students
SUBJECT Massachusetts Institute of Technology fast
Subject Technology transfer -- India -- History
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Students, Foreign
Technology transfer
SUBJECT India -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064905
Subject India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674088986
0674088980