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

Abstract

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 /f003Bhadralok/f001 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

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