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Author |
: Ross Bassett |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2016-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674495463 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674495462 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (63 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Technological Indian by : Ross Bassett
In the late 1800s, Indians seemed to be a people left behind by the Industrial Revolution, dismissed as “not a mechanical race.” Today Indians are among the world’s leaders in engineering and technology. In this international history spanning nearly 150 years, Ross Bassett—drawing on a unique database of every Indian to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology between its founding and 2000—charts their ascent to the pinnacle of high-tech professions. As a group of Indians sought a way forward for their country, they saw a future in technology. Bassett examines the tensions and surprising congruences between this technological vision and Mahatma Gandhi’s nonindustrial modernity. India’s first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, sought to use MIT-trained engineers to build an India where the government controlled technology for the benefit of the people. In the private sector, Indian business families sent their sons to MIT, while MIT graduates established India’s information technology industry. By the 1960s, students from the Indian Institutes of Technology (modeled on MIT) were drawn to the United States for graduate training, and many of them stayed, as prominent industrialists, academics, and entrepreneurs. The MIT-educated Indian engineer became an integral part of a global system of technology-based capitalism and focused less on India and its problems—a technological Indian created at the expense of a technological India.
Author |
: Ross Bassett |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 397 |
Release |
: 2016-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674504714 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674504712 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Technological Indian by : Ross Bassett
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.
Author |
: David Arnold |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 2013-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226922034 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226922030 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Everyday Technology by : David Arnold
In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract Hind Swaraj, laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization. Despite his protestations, Western technology endured and helped to make India one of the leading economies in our globalized world. Few would question the dominant role that technology plays in modern life, but to fully understand how India first advanced into technological modernity, argues David Arnold, we must consider the technology of the everyday. Everyday Technology is a pioneering account of how small machines and consumer goods that originated in Europe and North America became objects of everyday use in India in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Rather than investigate “big” technologies such as railways and irrigation projects, Arnold examines the assimilation and appropriation of bicycles, rice mills, sewing machines, and typewriters in India, and follows their impact on the ways in which people worked and traveled, the clothes they wore, and the kind of food they ate. But the effects of these machines were not limited to the daily rituals of Indian society, and Arnold demonstrates how such small-scale technologies became integral to new ways of thinking about class, race, and gender, as well as about the politics of colonial rule and Indian nationhood. Arnold’s fascinating book offers new perspectives on the globalization of modern technologies and shows us that to truly understand what modernity became, we need to look at the everyday experiences of people in all walks of life, taking stock of how they repurposed small technologies to reinvent their world and themselves.
Author |
: Emory Dean Keoke |
Publisher |
: Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 161 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780816069712 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0816069719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis American Indian Contributions to the World by : Emory Dean Keoke
Explores Native American peoples' hunting, fishing, gathering, and farming practices, which helped sustain early European colonists and continue to play a role in feeding the world's population today.
Author |
: Assa Doron |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2013-04-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674074279 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674074270 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (79 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Great Indian Phone Book by : Assa Doron
In 2001, India had 4 million cell phone subscribers. Ten years later, that number had exploded to more than 750 million. Over just a decade, the mobile phone was transformed from a rare and unwieldy instrument to a palm-sized, affordable staple, taken for granted by poor fishermen in Kerala and affluent entrepreneurs in Mumbai alike. The Great Indian Phone Book investigates the social revolution ignited by what may be the most significant communications device in history, one which has disrupted more people and relationships than the printing press, wristwatch, automobile, or railways, though it has qualities of all four. In this fast-paced study, Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey explore the whole ecosystem of the cheap mobile phone. Blending journalistic immediacy with years of field-research experience in India, they portray the capitalists and bureaucrats who control the cellular infrastructure and wrestle over bandwidth rights, the marketers and technicians who bring mobile phones to the masses, and the often poor, village-bound users who adapt these addictive and sometimes troublesome devices to their daily lives. Examining the challenges cell phones pose to a hierarchy-bound country, the authors argue that in India, where caste and gender restrictions have defined power for generations, the disruptive potential of mobile phones is even greater than elsewhere. The Great Indian Phone Book is a rigorously researched, multidimensional tale of what can happen when a powerful and readily available technology is placed in the hands of a large, still predominantly poor population.
Author |
: Ajantha Subramanian |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 385 |
Release |
: 2019-12-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674243484 |
ISBN-13 |
: 067424348X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Caste of Merit by : Ajantha Subramanian
How the language of “merit” makes caste privilege invisible in contemporary India. Just as Americans least disadvantaged by racism are most likely to endorse their country as post‐racial, Indians who have benefited from their upper-caste affiliation rush to declare their country post‐caste. In The Caste of Merit, Ajantha Subramanian challenges this comfortable assumption by illuminating the controversial relationships among technical education, caste formation, and economic stratification in modern India. Through in-depth study of the elite Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs)—widely seen as symbols of national promise—she reveals the continued workings of upper-caste privilege within the most modern institutions. Caste has not disappeared in India but instead acquired a disturbing invisibility—at least when it comes to the privileged. Only the lower castes invoke their affiliation in the political arena, to claim resources from the state. The upper castes discard such claims as backward, embarrassing, and unfair to those who have earned their position through hard work and talent. Focusing on a long history of debates surrounding access to engineering education, Subramanian argues that such defenses of merit are themselves expressions of caste privilege. The case of the IITs shows how this ideal of meritocracy serves the reproduction of inequality, ensuring that social stratification remains endemic to contemporary democracies.
Author |
: Ruth Barnes |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2015-12-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317793434 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317793439 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ships and the Development of Maritime Technology on the Indian Ocean by : Ruth Barnes
Recognising the fundamental role both of shipping communities and the technologies crafted and shared by them, this book explores the types of ships, methods of navigation and modes of water-borne trade in the Indian Ocean region and the way they affected the development of distinctive settlements against a changing but strong sense of regional consciousness and identity.
Author |
: Ashok V. Desai |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1988 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015015471207 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (07 Downloads) |
Synopsis Technology Absorption in Indian Industry by : Ashok V. Desai
This Unique Book Brings Together The Views Of Both Companies Abroad That Have Sold Technology And Firms In India That Have Bought It. It Reports On What Foreign Companies Think Of The Indian Market For Technology, Of Indian Firms' Practices And Of India'S Policies; It Also Reports On How Indian Companies Decide On Import Of Technology And How Far They Benefit From It. In This Book-
Author |
: Sanjaya Lall |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 138 |
Release |
: 1982-06-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781349054350 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1349054356 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Developing Countries as Exporters of Technology by : Sanjaya Lall
Author |
: Faisal Devji |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 2012-09-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674068100 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674068106 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Impossible Indian by : Faisal Devji
This is a rare view of Gandhi as a hard-hitting political thinker willing to countenance the greatest violence in pursuit of a global vision that went beyond a nationalist agenda. Guided by his idea of ethical duty as the source of the self’s sovereignty, he understood how life’s quotidian reality could be revolutionized to extraordinary effect.