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Author: Medha M. Kudaisya
Publisher: Oxford India Collection (Paper
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 434
ISBN-13: 9780195683325
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Ghanaśyāmadāsa Biṛalā, d. 1894-1983, industrialist and member of Marwari community of India.
Author: Medha M. Kudaisya
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 468
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKBiography of Ghanaśyāmadāsa Birạlā, d. 1894-1983, industrialist and member of Marwari community of India.
Author: Ross Bassett
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2016-02-15
Total Pages: 397
ISBN-13: 0674495462
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Ghanaśyāmadāsa Biṛalā
Publisher: Bombay Orient Longmans [1953]
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Arnold P. Kaminsky
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-09-13
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1351997432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume is a festschrift for Damodar Ramaji SarDesai (b.1931), Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) His work for over fifty years at UCLA has been an inspiration to generations of students, and he has made major contributions in his chosen areas of specialization of India, its foreign policy with regard to southeast Asia, imperialism and the history of the modern European empires. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Author: Thomas A Timberg
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2015-05-22
Total Pages: 149
ISBN-13: 9351187136
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the nineteenth century, a tiny community from the deserts of Rajasthan spread out to every corner of India. The Marwaris controlled much of the country’s inland trade by the time of the First World War. They then turned their hand to industry and, by the 1970s, owned most of India’s private industrial assets. Today, Marwari businessmen account for a quarter of the Indian names on the Forbes billionaires list.// What makes the Marwaris so successful? Is it their indomitable enterprise, or their incredible appetite for risk? In this new book, Thomas Timberg shows how the Marwaris rely on a centuries-old system for conserving and growing capital which has stood them in good stead, alongside a strong sense of business ethics which has earned them respect.// Family businesses in general and the Marwaris in particular might have a vital role to play in shaping India’s economic future.
Author: Sumit Ganguly
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-08-01
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1139498665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book considers the remarkable transformations that have taken place in India since 1980, a period that began with the assassination of the formidable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. Her death, and that of her son Rajiv seven years later, marked the end of the Nehru-Gandhi era. Although the country remains one of the few democracies in the developing world, many of the policies instigated by these earlier regimes have been swept away to make room for dramatic alterations in the political, economic and social landscape. Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji, two leading political scientists of South Asia, chart these developments with particular reference to social and political mobilization, the rise of the BJP and its challenge to Nehruvian secularism and the changes to foreign policy that, in combination with its meteoric economic development, have ensured India a significant place on the world stage.
Author: Arun Kumar
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021-10-07
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 019263920X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on the history of the philanthropy of India's economic elites, Arun Kumar discusses how their ideas and understanding of development have shifted and changed over time. Going beyond the more familiar criticisms of development's entanglements with colonialism, Kumar interrogates the changes in development imaginaries in terms of modernity's entanglements with the national question, including anti-colonial nationalism and post-colonial nation-building during the twentieth century. Development, he suggests, can be usefully read and critiqued as national-modern. Philanthropy and the Development of Modern India plots the careers of the national-modern in four main sites of development: civil society, community, science and technology, and selfhood. In an unusual move reading socio-economic nationalist reform from the first half of the twentieth century alongside post-colonial development from the second half, Kumar uncovers the lineages of contemporary development ideas such as self-care, self-reliance, merit, etc. In all this, elites were driven by a 'pedagogic reflex': to teach different sections of Indian society of how to be modern and developed. Contrary to development studies' characterization of elites as anti-development or captors of scarce resources, Kumar shows how elites longed for development for others. Development provided the moral justification, in their calculations, for protecting their commercial interests as they navigated the turbulent Indian twentieth century.
Author: Ashok Lahiri
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Published: 2023-01-23
Total Pages: 598
ISBN-13: 9354928374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIndia and the Indians have made some progress in 75 years after Independence. The number of literates has gone up. The Indians have become healthier and their life expectancy at birth has gone up. The proportion of people below the poverty line has also halved. But the shine from the story fades when India is compared with that of the East Asian Tigers and China. It looks good but not good enough. India looks far away from the glory it seeks. This issue forms the core subject matter of this book. It tries to argue why India could not achieve more and what all it could have achieved. It paints a picture of its possible future and highlights the areas that need immediate attention.
Author: Angana P. Chatterji
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 551
ISBN-13: 0190078170
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA trenchant assessment of Narendra Modi's BJP government and its impact on India.
