Sale!

The Technological Indian

Amazon.com Price:  $34.81 (as of 19/04/2019 22:37 PST- Details)

Description

In the late 1800s, Indians gave the look to be a people left at the back of by the Industrial Revolution, dismissed as “not a mechanical race.” These days Indians are some of the world’s leaders in engineering and technology. In this international history spanning nearly 150 years, Ross Bassett―drawing on a unique database of each 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 good thing about the people. In the private sector, Indian business families sent their sons to MIT, even as MIT graduates established India’s information technology industry.

By the 1960s, students from the Indian Institutes of Technology (modeled on MIT) were drawn to america for graduate training, and plenty of of them stayed, as prominent industrialists, academics, and entrepreneurs. The MIT-educated Indian engineer became an integral a 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.


Recent Products