Overview
- Decenters history of technology away from Europe and North American.
- Examines how indigenization programs contributed to the industrialization of India.
- Provides wide geographical and chronological scope of Nehruvian development
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology (PSHST)
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This book provides a technological history of modern India, in particular the Nehruvian development in the context of the Cold War. Through a series of case studies about military modernization, transportation infrastructure, and electric power, it examines how the ideals of autarky and technological indigenization conflicted with the economic and political realities of the Cold War world. Where other studies tend to focus on the political leaders and economists who oversaw development, this book demonstrates how the perspective of the engineers, government bureaucrats, and aid workers informed and ultimately implemented development.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Reviews
“A Technological History of Cold-War India is the book historians of modern India as well as historians of technology have been waiting for. … An impressive debut monograph, William A. T. Logan’s A Technological History of Cold-War India is a must read for historians of India, technology, and the Cold War. … Logan’s book arrives as a rising India is asserting itself more on the global stage, buoyed by its economic and technological strengths.” (Marc Reyes, Technology and Culture, Vol. 63 (4), October, 2022) ‘This well-written book provides an insightful and succinct “technological history” of development in early post-independence India under the challenges posed by the Cold War. This nuanced study, drawing on a wide range of materials, persuasively discusses how autarky as practiced with reference to technological indigenization conflicted with the economic and political realities of the Cold War world. Indeed, for those interested in better understanding the India of today, in particular, the changes in the Indian economy, this book provides much food for thought. An important addition to South Asian and India studies.’ (--Sharma Shalendra, Lingan University)
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About the author
William A.T. Logan is Assistant Professor of History at Pacific Union College, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Technological History of Cold-War India, 1947–1969
Book Subtitle: Autarky and Foreign Aid
Authors: William A.T. Logan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78767-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78766-0Published: 02 November 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78769-1Published: 03 November 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78767-7Published: 01 November 2021
Series ISSN: 2730-972X
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9738
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 282
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 8 illustrations in colour
Topics: Modern History, Asian History, History of Technology