03308cam a2200457 i 4500 18572656 BJBSDDR 20250828123846.0 a|||||r|||| 00| 0 ta 150413s2016 mau rb 001 0 eng 2015012424 9780674504714 (hbk. : alk. paper) 0674504712 (hbk. : alk. paper) 18572656 DLC eng DLC rda DLC eng pcc a-ii--- T 27 B319t 2016 338.954/06 Bassett, Ross Knox, 1959- 44474 The technological Indian / Ross Bassett. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2016. 386 pages ; 25 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. The Indian Discovery of America American‑Made Swadeshi Gandhi’s Industry From Gujarat to Cambridge Engineering a Colonial State Tryst with America, Tryst with MIT High Priests of Nehru’s India Business Families and MIT The Roots of IT India From India to Silicon Valley Conclusion Notes Acknowledgments Index "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."--Publisher's description Massachusetts Institute of Technology Foreign students. Instituto Tecnológico de Massachusetts Estudiantes extranjeros 44629 Technology transfer India History. Transferencia de tecnología India 14039 India History. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg lcc BK LLH 124870 124870 0 0 lcc 0 0 CT BJB BJB HU 2025-08-20 0 T 27 B319t 2016 00000193789 2025-08-20 22:53:00 1 2025-08-20 BK