Engineers and Society in India
From circa 1850 to Present Times
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ISBN:
9780198935919
Publication date:
06/08/2025
Hardback
384 pages
216x140mm
Price: 1295.00 INR
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ISBN:
9780198935919
Publication date:
06/08/2025
Hardback
384 pages
Edited by Vanessa Caru
Presents a diverse array of essays and multidisciplinary perspectives by historians, anthropologists, sociologists, and geographers, covering topics from the colonial period to present times,Uses extensive data that involves archival research, comprehensive interviews, and fieldwork across various educational and professional institutions,Explores a synthesized overview of the engineering field's evolution since the 1850s and its impact on India's infrastructure and intellectual progress
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Edited by Vanessa Caru
Description
This book offers a compelling exploration into the untold history and social dynamics of Indian engineers. Through a series of ten insightful essays, it brings together the perspectives of social scientists and historians from India, the United States, and France. Readers are taken on a journey from the colonial era to the modern day, delving into debates like the Howrah Bridge construction, the migration of Indian engineers to American universities post-Independence, the impact of reservation policies on IIT placements, and the burgeoning coaching culture in Kota. Accompanied by an in-depth introduction that surveys existing scholarship and traces the pivotal shifts in the engineering profession since the 1850s, this book is an essential read for those eager to understand the forces shaping India's engineering landscape.
About the editor
Vanessa Caru is a social historian and a Research Fellow at CESAH (CNRS-EHESS, Paris). She obtained her PhD in history, with a dissertation entitled "Working-class housing and the social question, Bombay (1850-1950)". She is currently researching the social history of the Indian personnel of the Public Works Department in the Bombay Presidency, from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Edited by Vanessa Caru
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Vanessa Caru
1. Creating Indian Engineers in America: Indians at MIT and Michigan, 1945–1971
Ross Bassett
2. Muslim Engineering Colleges in Bangalore: Negotiating ‘Community’ Interests and Profitability
Aminah Mohammad-Arif
3. Rank Factories: The Structure of the Coaching Industry in Kota (Rajasthan)
Roland Lardinois
4. ‘Engineering or Medicine, Nothing Less’ The Educational Choices of Students in Kerala
Nicolas Doucet
5. What Does My IITian Tag Actually Mean? The Relationship between Academic Titles and Job Positions: The Case of Students at an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Odile Henry and Mathieu Ferry
6. Imagined Technologists? The Evolution of the IT Engineer as an Occupational Category in India
Balaji Parthasarathy, Amit Prakash, and Supriya Dey
7. Surveying Discriminations: Indian and British Engineers in the Bombay Public Works Department (1850s–1940s)
Vanessa Caru
8. Who’s in Charge of the Howrah Bridge? Engineering Expertise and the Political Economy of Late-Colonial India
Aparajith Ramnath
9. Railway Engineers as ‘Real Estate Agents among Others’? The Changing Practices of State Engineers in India
Bérénice Bon
10. Public Civil Engineering, an Expertise of the Past? Insights from a Contested Public Utility in a Time of Reforms
Bérénice Girard
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
Edited by Vanessa Caru
Description
This book offers a compelling exploration into the untold history and social dynamics of Indian engineers. Through a series of ten insightful essays, it brings together the perspectives of social scientists and historians from India, the United States, and France. Readers are taken on a journey from the colonial era to the modern day, delving into debates like the Howrah Bridge construction, the migration of Indian engineers to American universities post-Independence, the impact of reservation policies on IIT placements, and the burgeoning coaching culture in Kota. Accompanied by an in-depth introduction that surveys existing scholarship and traces the pivotal shifts in the engineering profession since the 1850s, this book is an essential read for those eager to understand the forces shaping India's engineering landscape.
About the editor
Vanessa Caru is a social historian and a Research Fellow at CESAH (CNRS-EHESS, Paris). She obtained her PhD in history, with a dissertation entitled "Working-class housing and the social question, Bombay (1850-1950)". She is currently researching the social history of the Indian personnel of the Public Works Department in the Bombay Presidency, from the 1860s to the 1960s.
Table of contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Introduction
Vanessa Caru
1. Creating Indian Engineers in America: Indians at MIT and Michigan, 1945–1971
Ross Bassett
2. Muslim Engineering Colleges in Bangalore: Negotiating ‘Community’ Interests and Profitability
Aminah Mohammad-Arif
3. Rank Factories: The Structure of the Coaching Industry in Kota (Rajasthan)
Roland Lardinois
4. ‘Engineering or Medicine, Nothing Less’ The Educational Choices of Students in Kerala
Nicolas Doucet
5. What Does My IITian Tag Actually Mean? The Relationship between Academic Titles and Job Positions: The Case of Students at an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)
Odile Henry and Mathieu Ferry
6. Imagined Technologists? The Evolution of the IT Engineer as an Occupational Category in India
Balaji Parthasarathy, Amit Prakash, and Supriya Dey
7. Surveying Discriminations: Indian and British Engineers in the Bombay Public Works Department (1850s–1940s)
Vanessa Caru
8. Who’s in Charge of the Howrah Bridge? Engineering Expertise and the Political Economy of Late-Colonial India
Aparajith Ramnath
9. Railway Engineers as ‘Real Estate Agents among Others’? The Changing Practices of State Engineers in India
Bérénice Bon
10. Public Civil Engineering, an Expertise of the Past? Insights from a Contested Public Utility in a Time of Reforms
Bérénice Girard
Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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