Technology and the Raj: Western Technology and Technical Transfers to India, 1700-1947 - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0803992378 ISBN 13: 9780803992375

Casa editrice: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd, 1995

Riassunto

An AltaMira Press BookThis study analyses the roots of India's underdevelopment through a detailed examination of financial administration in the nineteenth century. Adopting an entirely new methodology, Dr. Banjeri provides a fresh perspective on India's economic stagnation using a multisectoral approach.The author quantifies specific aspects of the colonial economy; he draws linkages between the government's fiscal polocies and elements of the economy which have a crucial bearing on the nature of growth. These include taxation, expenditure, the extent of government investment, and the role of the government in the external sector.An analytic work which explores the interrelationships between three crucial sectors of the economy-finance, investment and the external sector.

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Recensione

`The contributions to this volume address an important and neglected subject in the colonial history of India: the conditions and contexts of technology transfer within the colonial relationship' - Imperial and Commonwealth History

Contenuti

Introduction - Roy MacLeod and Deepak Kumar
Western Technology and British Rule
PART ONE: THE TRANSFER OF TECHNOLOGY AND THE RAJ
Colonial and Neo-Colonial Transfer of Technology - Ian Inkster
Perspectives on India before 1914
Technology Transfer and its Constraints - R J Henry
Early Warnings from Agricultural Development in Colonial Inda
The Genesis of Chemical-Based Industrialisation - Nasir Tyabji
Oilseeds in Madras
Science and Technology Education in South India - S Ambirajan
PART TWO: CHANGES IN THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION
The Sinking Ships - Satpal Sangwan
Colonial Policy and the Decline of Indian Shipping, 1735-1835
Commercial Needs and Military Necessities - Saroj Ghoshe
The Telegraph in India
The Building of India's Railways - Ian Derbyshire
The Application of Western Technology in the Colonial Periphery, 1850-1920
Colonial Requirements and Engineering Education - Arun Kumar
The Public Works Department, 1847-1947
PART THREE: TOWARDS INDEPENDENCE: PROBLEMS OF TRANSITION
Science, Technical Education and Industrialisation - S Irfan Habib
Contours of a Bhadralok Debate, 1890-1915
Technology for National Reconstruction - Jagdish N Sinha
The National Planing Committee, 1938-1949
`Colonised Minds' or Progressive Nationalist Scientists - Dinesh Abrol
The Science and Culture Group
Organisation of Industrial Research - V V Krishna
The Early History of CSIR, 1934-1947

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Sage Pubns Pvt Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0803992378
• ISBN 13: 9780803992375
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Redattore: Macleod Roy M., Kumar Deepak
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile