Format:
1 online resource (297 pages)
ISBN:
9783030787677
Series Statement:
Palgrave Studies in the History of Science and Technology Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- 1 Introduction -- Historiography -- Overview of the Book -- Arguments -- References -- 2 The Industrial Revolution in India -- Industry and the Raj -- Dreams of a New India -- The Five-Year Plans -- Independence and Autarky -- Import Substitution and Nehruvian India -- Waste and Adaptive Reuse in Indian Technology -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 India and the Cold War -- Nonalignment in India and Abroad -- India and the United States -- India and the Soviet Union -- Cultural Exchanges Between the Superpowers and India -- Conclusion -- References -- 4 Modernizing the Indian Air Force: Imported Fighters and the HF-24 Marut, 1947-1968 -- The Indian Air Force Before Independence -- The Air Force Looks West -- The Indigenous Fighter Dream -- The Air Force and the Superpowers -- India, Egypt, and Indigenous Jet Fighters -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 India's Air Defenses and the Sino-Indian War: Exercise Shiksha, November 1963 -- India and China Go to War -- The West and India's Air Defenses -- The Air Force Gets an Education -- Friends and Rivals in Exercise Shiksha -- From Palam Field to Kanjarkot Fort -- Conclusion -- References -- 6 Spanning Assam's Great River: The Brahmaputra Bridge and the Indian Railways, 1958-1962 -- The Indian Railways and Assam -- Prehistory of the Brahmaputra Bridge -- The Search for a Second Contractor -- Building the Brahmaputra Bridge -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 A Dam in the Khasi Hills: The Umiam Hydroelectric Project, 1960-1965 -- Dams in Independent India -- A Dam on Khasi Land -- How the Dam Was Built -- How the Dam Was Financed -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Tarapur and the Atomic Age, 1959-1964 -- The Nuclear Age Comes to Independent India -- The Genesis of Tarapur -- The Race for the Tarapur Contract.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030787660
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Logan, William A. T. A technological history of Cold-War India, 1947-1969 Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2022 ISBN 9783030787660
Additional Edition:
ISBN 3030787664
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
Indien
;
Industrialisierung
;
Technischer Fortschritt
;
Blockfreiheit
;
Geschichte 1947-1969
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